to estimate the bacterio-epidemiological situation of childhood respiratory tuberculosis in iran, 2185 symptomatic patients of 0-14 years old were studied. among 110 bacteriologically confirmed cases, 60% were less than five years old and the number of females was slightly more than males. in 21 % of patients, the mantoux test was negative. none of the miliary cases had a history of bcg vaccina...

THE development of erythema is often a striking feature of the reaction to tuberculin. It occurs in the cutaneous test of Von Pirquet, and its development was the criterion of positivity in the conjunctival test of Wolff-Eisner and Calmette. It is usually well developed in the test which superseded both of these, the intracutaneous test of Mantoux. Over the years, however, particularly with the...

To estimate the bacterio-epidemiological situation of childhood respiratory tuberculosis in Iran, 2185 symptomatic patients of 0-14 years old were studied. Among 110 bacteriologically confirmed cases, 60% were less than five years old and the number of females was slightly more than males. In 21 % of patients, the Mantoux test was negative. None of the miliary cases had a history of BCG va...

OBJECTIVES The risk of transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients with tuberculosis to health care workers (HCWs) has been well documented but little is known about the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in Iranian HCWs. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of LTBI among HCWs by using IFNgamma-release assay and compare the results with those of tub...