Study ID (First author, year) | Total test results available | Type of IGRA test and TST (thresholds) | Number of people with positive results | Number of people with negative results | People with test positive results who progressed to TB (n) | People with test negative results who progressed to TB (n) |
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Children | ||||||
 Diel, 2011 [11] | 104 | QFT-GIT | 21 | 83 | 6 | 0 |
TST (≥5 mm) | 40 | 64 | 6 | 0 | ||
TST (≥10 mm) | 40 | 64 | 4 | 2 | ||
 Mahomed, 2011 [13] | 5244 | QFT-GIT | 2669 | 2575 | 39 | 13 |
TST (≥5 mm) | 2894 | 2350 | 40 | 12 | ||
 Metin Timur, 2014 [14] | 69 | QFT-GIT | 0 | 69 | 0 | 0 |
TST (≥15 mm) | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
 Noorbakhsh, 2011 [15] | 59 | QFT-G | 18 | 41 | 10 | 0 |
58 | TST (≥10 mm) | 8 | 50 | 3 | 7 | |
 Song, 2014 [16] | 2966 | QFT-GIT | 317 | 2649 | 11 | 12 |
2982 | TST (≥10 mm) | 663 | 2319 | 13 | 10 | |
TST (≥15 mm) | 231 | 2751 | 13 | 10 | ||
Immunocompromised | ||||||
 Elzi, 2011 [12] | 43 | T-SPOT.TB | 25 | 18 | 25 | 18 |
44 | TST (≥5 mm) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | |
 Kim, 2011 [17] | 265 | T-SPOT.TB | 89 | 176 | 4 | 0 |
288 | TST (≥5 mm) | 26 | 262 | 1 | 3 | |
 Kim, 2015a [18] | 282 | QFT-GIT | 7 | 275 | 0 | 1 |
282 | TST (≥5 mm) | 12 | 270 | 0 | 1 | |
 Lee, 2009 [19] | 30 | QFT-G | 12 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
T-SPOT.TB | 15 | 17 | 0 | 2 | ||
TST (≥10 mm) | 20 | 12 | 1 | 1 | ||
 Lee, 2014 [22] | 159 | QFT-GIT | 26 | 133 | 3 | 2 |
169 | TST (≥10 mm) | 19 | 150 | 0 | 5 | |
TST (≥15 mm) | 12 | 157 | 0 | 5 | ||
 Lee, 2015b [23] | 342 | QFT-GIT | 103 | 239 | N/A | 4 |
239 | TST (≥10 mm) | 60 | 179 | 2 | 2 | |
 Milman, 2011 [20] | 41 | QFT-G | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
12 | TST (≥10 mm) | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
 Moon, 2013 [21] | 210 | QFT-GIT | 40 | 170 | 1 | 1 |
244 | TST (≥5 mm) | 39 | 205 | 0 | 2 | |
 Sester, 2014 [24] | 1238 | QFT-GIT | 159 | 1079 | 3 | 5 |
1217 | T-SPOT.TB | 193 | 1024 | 4 | 6 | |
1282 | TST (≥5 mm) | 149 | 1133 | 4 | 7 | |
 Sherkat, 2014 [25] | 44 | T-SPOT.TB | 6 | 38 | 1 | 0 |
TST (≥10 mm) | 8 | 36 | 1 | 0 | ||
Recent arrivals from countries with a high incidence of TB | ||||||
 Harstad, 2010 [26] | 815 | QFT-GIT | 238 | 577 | 8 | 1 |
 | TST (≥6 mm) | 415 | 395 | 8 | 1 | |
813 | TST (≥15 mm) | 121 | 692 | 3 | 6 | |
 Kik, 2010 [27] | 327 | QFT-GIT | 178 | 149 | 5 | 3 |
299 | T-SPOT.TB | 181 | 118 | 6 | 2 | |
339 | TST (≥10 mm) | 288 | 51 | 9 | 0 | |
322 | TST (≥15 mm) | 184 | 138 | 7 | 1 |