A positive tuberculosis (TB) skin test can look different depending on your risk factors. Learn risk factors to consider and what a positive test may look like.

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 ...

THAT the tuberculin test can become negative with measles has been known since the report of Pirquet1 in 1908. At that time he gave credit to Preisich, in Budapest, who had found in November, 1907, ...

A TB skin test is not 100% accurate, sometimes resulting in a false-positive or false-negative result. Because of this, you may need a follow-up TB skin test to assist with the diagnosis.

Now, Tulane University researchers have developed a new handheld TB test that significantly improves detection in people with ...

TB rates remained static amongst HIV-negative gold miners, a population at high risk of the disease, during a period when TB prevalence generally has increased four-fold, according to investigators ...

Do TB test results correlate with differences in the clinical presentation of active TB?

Approximately 300 students and staff at Walton High School in Marietta are getting tested on Tuesday after a possible tuberculosis (TB) exposure, health officials said.