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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 30081493" data-attributes="member: 562115">Don't get unduly worried. TB doesn't immediately jump on you. It's infectious when you have prolonged contact. Many of us would have got the disease unknowingly and the body immune system has already beaten it.Unfortunately for some the body immune system is unable to beat it and the progression from TB infection to TB disease takes place. This happens only for less than 10 per cent of people.The current Gold standard is the QFT - QuantiFERON Gold Plus - which is an IGRA blood test (Interferon Gamma Release Assay)Also there's a recent much cheaper test developed by GeneXpert - A Nucleic Acid Amplification (NAA) test which not only diagnoses but also tests for drug resistance to Rifampicin as well in 2 hours.</blockquote>

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