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The skin prick test.

Journal of biological regulators and homeostatic agents, 2018
The skin prick test (SPT) is the most common test for the diagnosis of allergy. SPT is performed by pricking the skin, usually in the volar surface of the forearm, with a lancet through a drop of an allergen extract and is usually the first choice test in the diagnostic workup for allergic diseases because of its reliability, safety, convenience and ...
F. Frati   +6 more
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Skin testing

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2006
To provide the reader with a relevant review of the literature regarding skin testing in the allergist's office.A PubMed search for the years 1970 through 2005 was performed using the following keywords: allergy skin testing, skin prick testing, and intradermal skin testing.Articles that highlighted aspects of sentinel to clinical allergists' use of ...
John, Oppenheimer, Harold S, Nelson
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The Tuberculin Skin Test

Pediatric Annals, 1993
nounced the discovery of a cure for tuberculosis. The cure consisted of giving patients subcutaneous doses of tuberculin, a brownish, transparent liquid obtained from culture filtrates of MWcobacterium tuberculosis. This treatment caused a febrile reaction within 4 or 5 hours.
John B. Bass   +2 more
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Predicting the Development of Tuberculosis with the Tuberculin Skin Test and QuantiFERON Testing.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2015
RATIONALE The identification of patients with latent tuberculosis infection, who are at higher risk to develop active disease, is an important component of disease control.
N. Altet   +13 more
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Correlation of lymphocyte transformation with tuberculin skin-test sensitivity.

American Review of Respiratory Disease, 2015
The degree of delayed hypersensitivity to tuberculin purified protein derivative (PPD) was determined in 34 subjects by sequential skin testing with first, intermediate, and second strength PPD, and simultaneously the subjects’ lymphocytes were maximally
S. Miller, H. Jones
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Skin testing in allergy

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 2019
Skin tests are used in addition to a directed history and physical examination to exclude or confirm immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated diseases, such as allergic rhinitis, asthma, and anaphylaxis, to aeroallergens, foods, insect venoms, and certain drugs.
Gayatri B. Patel, Carol A. Saltoun
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Streptokinase Skin Testing

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1986
To the Editor. —We found the recent article by Dykewicz et al 1 most valuable. We have a protocol for use of intravenous streptokinase in our community hospital with which we have treated more than 60 patients since January 1983. To date, we have observed no untoward effects, but we have excluded patients from the protocol who have received ...
Harold G. Morse, Sandra Harley McClellan
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Association of asthma with serum IgE levels and skin-test reactivity to allergens.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1989
We investigated the association of self-reported asthma or allergic rhinitis with serum IgE levels and skin-test reactivity to allergens in 2657 subjects in a general-population study. Regardless of the subjects' status with respect to atopy or their age
B. Burrows   +4 more
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Tuberculin Skin Testing [PDF]

open access: possibleJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
To the Editor. — I should like to comment on the negativity of the tuberculin skin test performed on the patients described in the article entitled "Transtracheal Aspiration in Diagnosis of Sputum-Spear—Negative Tuberculosis" (238:1037-1040, 1977).
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