TUBERCULIN IN EPILEPSY

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Tuberculin sensitivity in tuberculosis.

Seven of twenty-eight (25%) patients with untreated tuberculosis had skin induration of less than 6 mm to one tuberculin unit (TU), and 3 (11%) to 10 TU PPD. Among twenty-four patients with lung disease, there were no detectable differences in radiological extent of disease between reactors and non-reactors to low-dose tuberculin. However, non-reactors were significantly more malnourished (P le...

Tuberculin Test

  در ایالات متحده حدود ۱۵ میلیون نفر آلوده به میکروب سل می باشند و هر سال ۳۰ هزار مورد جدید گزارش می شود. انتظار می رود تا سال ۲۰۰۰ این رقم به ۵۰۰۰۰ نفر در سال برسد. تست مانتو نسبت به تست چند سوزنی که قبلاً بسیار متداول بود، بمراتب دقیق تر است و بهمین دلیل به عنوان یک روش انتخابی برای غربالگری سل شناخته شده است. امروزه این تست اولین اقدام برای اثبات عفونت کلینیکی بوده و در صورتی که بطور دقیق ا...

Variations in Tuberculin Allergy

It is generally accepted that once an individual manifests an allergic state by responding locally to the intracutaneous administration of tuberculin (O. T.) this response may be elicited indefinitely. A positive tuberculin reaction, moreover, has been interpreted universally as indicating the presence of infection with the tubercle bacillus, if not actually infectious disease capable of clinic...

B.C.G. tuberculin.

It is well known that after Bacille Calmette-Gue'rin (B.C.G.) vaccination the degree of allergy as shown by the tuberculin test is of a lesser order than that after infection with virulent tubercle bacilli. For this reason it may be necessary to perform several successively stronger tuberculin tests up to 100 units of old tuberculin (Mantoux 1/100) before a positive post-vaccination test is obt...