Steroids Decrease Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications on Anti-TNF Therapies [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014 Tuberculin skin test has been used as an indicator of latent tuberculosis in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) before administration of biologicals.
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Comparison of Tuberculin Skin Test and New Specific Blood Test in Tuberculosis Contacts
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2004 The tuberculin skin test used to detect latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection has many drawbacks, and a new diagnostic test for latent tuberculosis (QuantiFERON-TB [QTF-TB]) has recently been introduced.
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A Comparison of Two-Step Tuberculin Skin Test between Health-Care Workers and Nonhospital Employees [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2010 Background: The tuberculin test is widely used to identify tuberculosisinfection. Some individuals infected with Mycobacteriumtuberculosis may have an initial negative skin test reactionto tuberculin. The two step purified protein derivative skin testcan
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Granuloma annulare: relationship to diabetes mellitus, thyroid disorders and tuberculin skin test
Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2017 Pedram Alirezaei, Mahmood Farshchian Department of Dermatology, Psoriasis Research Center, Farshchian Hospital, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Background: Granuloma annulare is a benign inflammatory disease of the skin.
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Tuberculin skin testing. [PDF]
Postgraduate medicinePreview The incidence of tuberculosis in the United States is escalating at an alarming rate. Thus, it is imperative to detect the infection early so that chemoprophylaxis can be given before active disease has a chance to develop. The tuberculin skin test is simple, cheap, and effective and should be an integral part of evaluating not only high-risk ...
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Bullous Reaction on Tuberculin Skin Test
Indian Journal of Respiratory Care, 2020 Ramakant Dixit +2 more
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Predictive performance of interferon-gamma release assays and the tuberculin skin test for incident tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis [PDF]
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Skin thickness affects the result of tuberculin skin test in systemic sclerosis. [PDF]
BMC Rheumatol, 2022 Background Skin thickness is a prominent clinical feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc), but there is no consensus on the cut-off for a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) size and the limitation of the TST for a diagnosis of tuberculosis in SSc.
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Tuberculin skin test surveys and the Annual Risk of Tuberculous Infection in school children in Northern KwaZulu-Natal. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthTuberculin skin test surveys in primary school children can be used to quantify Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission at community level. KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, is home to 11.5 million people and suffers a burden of tuberculosis disease ...
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 Objective: To evaluate the performance of interferon gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccinated young children.
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