DESCRIPTION Tuberculin Purified Protein Derivative (Mantoux) TUBERSOL for intradermal (Mantoux) tuberculin testing is available in a stabilized solution bio-equivalent to 5 U.S. units (TU) PPD-S per test dose (0.1 mL). TUBERSOL is prepared by Aventis Pasteur Limited from a large Master Batch, Connaught Tuberculin (CT68) and is a cell-free purified protein fraction obtained from a human strain o...

We studied interleukin 1 (IL-1) activity of pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes obtained from ten patients with tuberculous pleurisy and ten patients with malignant pleurisy, using purified protein derivative (PPD) as a stimulating agent. Tuberculous pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes tended to produce higher IL-1 activity than malignant pleural fluid ...

The motivation behind the idea of product focused process improvement is to make a process improvement program address certain product quality features in an explicit manner. The PROFES methodology [PROFES (2001)] describes such an improvement program through the notion of a PPD (Product-Process Dependency) repository. A PPD model tells which improvement action will result in the improvement of...

In various contexts, animals rely on acoustic signals to differentiate between conspecifics. Currently, studies examining vocal signatures use two main approaches. In the first approach, researchers search for acoustic characteristics that have the potential to be individual specific. This approach yields information on variation in signal parameters both within and between individuals and gene...