Zinc Cream and Reliability of Tuberculosis Skin Testing

Zinc Cream and Reliability of Tuberculosis Skin Testing

In 50 healthy Peruvian shantytown residents, zinc cream applied to tuberculosis skin-test sites caused a 32% increase in induration compared with placebo cream. Persons with lower plasma zinc had smaller skin-test reactions and greater augmentation with zinc cream. Zinc deficiency caused false-negative skin-test results, and topical zinc supplementation augmented antimycobacterial immune respon...

A Review of Skin Tuberculosis

مقدمه: سل جلدی برای نخستین بار در سال ۱۸۲۶ توسط لن تشخیص داده شد و از آن پس انواع مختلف سل جلدی شناسایی و شرح داده شده اند که وفور آنها در هر جامعه ای، ارتباط مستقیم با شیوع سل احشایی در آن جامعه دارد. در گذشته سل جلدی در بسیاری از کشورها شایع بود به طوری که در قرن نوزدهم لوپوس ولکاریس در اروپا اندمیک شد. امروزه در کشورهای پیشرفته، به موازات کاهش شیوع سل احشایی، سل جلدی به ندرت دیده می شود؛ در ...

Drug-susceptibility testing in tuberculosis: methods and reliability of results.

The demand for reliable drug-susceptibility testing (DST) increases with the expansion of antituberculosis drug-resistance surveillance, and with the need for an appropriate treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, whose incidence gradually increases in many parts of the world. However, the reliability of DST results obtained through widely used methods does not meet acceptable levels, ex...

Progesterone skin cream and measurements of absorption.

Tuberculosis skin testing, anergy and protein malnutrition in Peru.

SETTING Malnutrition and intestinal parasites cause immunosuppression. This may cause false-negative tuberculin skin tests (TST) and failure to identify tuberculosis (TB) infection. OBJECTIVE To assess factors associated with TST positivity and anergy in disadvantaged communities in Peru. DESIGN A study of 212 randomly selected adults: 102 in a rural Amazonian village and 110 shanty town re...