THE purpose of this paper is to record marked decrease of skin tuberculin hypersensitivity in 4 tuberculous infants during isoniazid therapy, and to discuss the possible implications of this ...

RECENT knowledge of the genetic and somatic effects of radiation 1 has restricted x-ray examination as a mass screening device for detection of tuberculosis among the general population although its ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Tuberculin test positive' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

A woman with a 2-month-old baby tested ppd-positive while she had been pregnant and received no treatment. What is the minimum age one can plant a tuberculin skin test on an infant? Although many ...

In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

Tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) are intended for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infection, not active disease Tuberculin skin tests and IGRAs detect evidence ...

A tuberculosis (TB) skin test is the first method a doctor may use to try to determine if a person has TB. A TB skin test involves injecting a person with a small amount of tuberculin to see how the ...

Robert Koch (1843?1910), who isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882 and proved that it caused tuberculosis, announced at a medical congress in Berlin eight years later that he had developed a ...

The purified-protein-derivative (PPD)-based tuberculin skin test (TST) that is most commonly used to detect latent tuberculosis infection is dependent on normal T-cell function. Patients with ...

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A 52-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease secondary to diabetes requires hemodialysis. Her physician reviewed her history of tuberculosis (TB) exposure, noting that she immigrated to Canada ...