There is a test that is usually carried out to find out whether a child has tuberculosis or not, namely the Mantoux test. The ...

July 23, 2012 — A negative tuberculin skin testing (TST) result, as defined by a reaction of less than 5 mm of induration by Mantoux testing, is strongly predictive of active tuberculosis (TB ...

The tuberculin status of hospital populations has not been extensively studied. If a sufficient proportion of hospital patients are tuberculin negative, the tuberculin test can serve as an ...

On repeat testing of the 127 boys whose tuberculin reaction was negative, 21 had become positive. Another test, ten weeks later, of the remaining boys with negative reactions revealed 4 more with ...

A third sputum test on a man quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was negative for the presence of TB bacteria, hospital officials said Tuesday, opening up the possibility that he ...

DENVER – A third sputum test on a man quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was negative for the presence of TB bacteria, hospital officials said Tuesday, opening up the ...

Q: I work at Gateway and read about how symptoms of tuberculosis sometimes don’t show up for a lot of years. I’m wondering if that means I need to get a test every year now. – Bob… ...

For the third time, a test measuring how contagious tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker might be has come back negative – meaning the 31-year-old’s chances of passing on his disease are ...

Q: I work at Gateway and read about how symptoms of tuberculosis sometimes don’t show up for a lot of years. I’m wondering if that means I need to get a test every year now. – Bob… ...