tuberculin test

Tuberculin tests were administered first to the five officers.

It took the tuberculin test to do that.

Secondary school students who have not had the tuberculin test, the health department memorandum said, "will be excluded from school."

A tuberculin test conversion is defined as an increase of 10 mm or more within a 2-year period, regardless of age.

I was reading a tuberculin test and all I wanted to do was to measure the intradermal reaction.

The seals have paid for millions of Canadians to have chest X-ray or tuberculin tests.

People who have a high risk for developing TB usually have a skin test (tuberculin test) on a regular basis.

The gamma-interferon test is the most promising of these, and is used under practical field conditions as an adjunct to the tuberculin test in herds.

Her articles described the care programs in Alabama hospitals and urged readers to get tuberculin tests and chest X-rays.

Ms. Perez said her office had received 15 to 20 calls from parents of students at Booker T. Washington asking for tuberculin tests.

I looked at my watch; oh I had a few minutes to spare and there was nothing urgent ahead, just Mr Dacre's tuberculin test.

Chest radiograph, abdominal ultrasound, Kveim test, tuberculin test, brucella serology, and all other routine tests were negative.

"The Intradermal Tuberculin Test in Cattle, Collected results of experience" (Medical Research Council.

Over half the subjects interviewed (57%) believed that people with positive purified protein derivative (PPD) tuberculin test can transmit TB to others.

Given that there is as yet no bovine tuberculosis vaccine for cattle that does not interfere with the tuberculin tests, such vaccination is prohibited under EU law.

About eighty percent of the population in many Asian and African countries test positive in tuberculin tests, but only five to ten percent of the United States.

I was on my way to do a tuberculin test; the national scheme was beginning to make its first impact in the Dales and the more progressive farmers were asking for survey tests.

So when I drove up to Mr. Kay's farm for a tuberculin test and found his cows tied up in their stalls I breathed a sigh of relief.

Refinements in bacteria growing conditions, filtering out contaminants, and the use of live animals to standardise each batch were seen as crucial in providing a reliable source for the tuberculin test.

A complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), antistreptolysin-O (ASO) titer, urinalysis, throat culture, intradermal tuberculin test, and chest x-ray are part of the initial examination.

Tuberculosis is more common in developing countries; about 80% of the population in many Asian and African countries test positive in tuberculin tests, while only 5-10% of the US population test positive.

He claims that "the cattle controls in operation at the moment are totally ineffective," partly because the tuberculin test used in cattle is not accurate, causing test in herds to often show negative results even while still harbouring the disease.

Kathy Ortiz, a health aide at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, said students at her school were expected to get tuberculin tests and might be excluded from school if they did not have them.

I was due to start Lord Hulton's tuberculin test at 9.30 a.m. and as I drove round the back of the Elizabethan mansion to the farm buildings nearby I felt a pang of misgiving; there were no animals in sight.

To assess the relation between tuberculosis and HIV in this area we screened 150 HIV positive patients at the Royal London Hospital over the period July 1991 to May 1992 with skin tuberculin tests and chest radiography.