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[Evaluation of the usefulness of a serodiagnosis kit, the determiner TBGL antibody for tuberculosis: setting
T Kishimoto1, O Moriya, J Nakamura
1Department of Health Care Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Japan.
Abstract:
The determiner TBGL antibody developed by Kyowa-Medex co., ltd. is a new serodiagnostic kit for tuberculosis. To set cut-off point suitable for the kit, TBGL antibody titer of serum from healthy subjects were analyzed in relation to age, sex, previous and family history on tuberculosis. Based on results of healthy subjects, cut-off point was set by using several analytical methods. We propose 2U/ml as a cut-off point for screening of patients with tuberculosis considering the diagnostic efficiency by receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis and 4U/ml for diagnosis of tuberculosis, which was determined by parametric method considering its specificity.

