We considered three screening strategies based on tuberculin skin testing, and one based on chest radiography ( Table 1). Any positive tuberculin test was followed by clinical evaluation and chest ...

The recommendations for medium risk included, “All HCWs should receive baseline TB screening upon hire, using two-step TST (skin test) or a single BAMT (alternate test) to test for infection,” and ...

Thanks to the availability of two new blood tests called T-SPOT.TB and QuantiFERON-TB Gold, physicians around the world can better detect latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. The tests, which reduce ...

WITHOUT going into a lengthy discussion on the significance of a positive skin reaction to tuberculin and its limitations, it is fair to state that few laboratory tests are as satisfactory and as ...

THAT the tuberculin test can become negative with measles has been known since the report of Pirquet 1 in 1908. At that time he gave credit to Preisich, in Budapest, who had found in November, 1907, ...