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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Results of intradermal tuberculin skin tests using hypodermic jet equipment were compared with results obtained by the standard Mantoux needle-syringe technique in a study of 1,478 Vietnamese mental ...

Residents, and visitors to Canada, who were born in a foreign country with a high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) now account for over two-thirds of all reported cases of TB in this country.1, 2 ...

BOVINE tuberculosis is one of the most serious scourges that afflicts cattle in Great Britain, causing an annual loss which has been estimated to amount to £2,000,000 annually. The disease in dairy ...