Multiple-puncture tuberculin testing.

The Multiple Puncture Cutaneous Tuberculin Test.

At a recent meeting of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, a special plea was put forward for a wholesale examination of children of school age, with a view to discovering signs of existing latent tuberculous infection. There was general agreement that in such a routine examination the tuberculin test must play an important part. and it is the purpose of this paper to d...

County wide tuberculin testing.

During the past 25 years tuberculin testing surveys have been used extensively and effectively in Minnesota’s fight against tuberculosis. The program started in the schools. S. A. Slater, Southwestern Minnesota Sanatorium, Worthington reported testing 1,654 rural children in 1924. The idea spread slowly at first but soon gained momentum. Now hundreds of communities in this state have routine ye...

Tuberculin testing of the aged.

The advent of antimicrobial drugs has brought the significance of the tuberculin test in sharp focus. This test determines the magnitude of the tuberculosis problem in groups of people since it readily detects those who are harboring tubercle bacilli. Evidence is accumulating which suggests that the clinical tuberculosis of the future will occur largely in those now infected. Only the tuberculi...

Tuberculin Skin Testing in Children

In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended targeted tuberculin skin testing (TST) of children while discouraging routine TST of children without risk factors for tuberculosis (TB). Recent studies have provided evidence in support of the targeted TST and recommendations that favor risk assessment over universal screening with TST. While evidence for targeted TB testing exists ...

Multiple puncture BCG vaccination.