Publications by authors named "Emily Shira Gitlin"
Discordance of 3rd and 4th generation QuantiFERON-TB Gold assays by pregnancy stages in India.
Vandana Kulkarni Mallika Alexander Ramesh Bhosale Divyashri Jain Prasad Deshpande Emily Shira Gitlin
J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis
February 2025
Background: Pregnancy and HIV affect CD4+ T lymphocytes and impact performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT). We compared the results of QFT with QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus), which also measures CD8+ responses to TB antigens, during pregnancy and postpartum.
Methods: We screened 516 pregnant women for TB infection (TBI) with IGRA.