TUBERCULIN IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treated with Tuberculin

detailed description showing the method of treatment with the dosage could not be given, as it would have made the paper too long. Since then 1 have, however, received several communications from practitioners from different parts of India, asking me to give in detail the dosage and method of employment of tuberculin. The report of the following case which is interesting for more reasons than o...

Repeated tuberculin testing in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

OBJECTIVE The proportion of tuberculin reactors in a population and the intensity of tuberculin reactions have been shown to increase with increasing exposure to mycobacterial infection, eg, repeated BCG immunization. These observations suggested that tuberculin reactivity would become uniformly high in individuals with a high mycobacterial load who did not have a known cause of anergy. Since t...

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...

The tuberculin reaction during chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Changes in the tuberculin reaction during the course of pulmonary tuberculosis have been a matter of considerable interest for many decades. There has emerged no uniform agreement as to the significance or utility of any observed variations in intensity of reaction nor indeed in which direction the alterations occur. Studies exist on changes during rest, collapse and surgical therapy and have b...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis