TUBERCULIN TESTS.

Serious allergic reactions following tuberculin skin tests.

Patient's self-interpretation of tuberculin skin tests.

BACKGROUND In the outpatient use of tuberculin skin testing (purified protein derivative [PPD]), it is at times inconvenient to have a patient revisit for interpretation. Therefore, we assessed patients' ability to self-interpret these test results. METHODS In keeping with prior custom, patients were seen by an experienced nurse, who performed skin testing with PPD intermediate strength as we...

Tuberculosis and Tuberculin Tests in Subhuman Primates *

The incidence of tuberculosis has always been high among monkeys and anthropoid apes in captivity in zoological gardens and research colonies. More recently it has been recognized that the disease is a serious menace both to the welfare of the animals and to that of human contacts. About 25 per cent of more than 2000 monkeys and anthropoids used by the Laboratory of Physiology of the Yale Unive...

HLA-DR and tuberculin tests in rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis.

Responses to four new tuberculins were found to be significantly reduced in 46 patients with rheumatoid arthritis in comparison with a control group of 79. Except for tuberculin itself, the same was found in 111 patients with tuberculosis. In common with patients with tuberculosis and leprosy, those with rheumatoid arthritis did not respond to common mycobacterial (group i) antigen. Three DR ha...

comparing chest radiograph and tuberculin skin tests in children

world health organization (who) has reported that out of more than 10,000 of 250,000 tuberculosis afflicted children die annually. pulmonary tuberculosis is a research priority in our country, and diagnos-ing this disease especially in children who are known as the major transmitter of the disease is rather difficult. as a result, it was decided to conduct an overall assessment on this age grou...