Parasitic infection may be associated with discordant responses to QuantiFERON and tuberculin skin test in apparently healthy children and adolescents in a tuberculosis endemic setting, Ethiopia

Table 3 Proportion of QFT-GIT and TST positive responses with respect to school types

^¶TST measured at 10 mm cut-off; 85%CI: et al. 2012ST positives among Ethiopian adults recruited from medical schools.
* P-value = 0.0413; ** School type was used as a proxy for socio-economic class. Private schools are fee dependent, whereas government schools rely entirely on government support and are free to attend.