The objective of the present study is to evaluate the use of pleural fluid ADA, cytology, pleural biopsy and Mantoux test in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion. This prospective study was conducted on 92 patients December 2011– October 2013 at Government Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis Hospital, Hanamkonda. Diagnostic accuracy of pleural fluid cytology (L/N ratio >0.75) , ADA >40 U/L...

Seven serological tests, two immunochromatographic tests, ICT Tuberculosis and RAPID TEST TB, and five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, TUBERCULOSIS IgA EIA, PATHOZYME-TB complex, PATHOZYME-MYCO IgG, PATHOZYME-MYCO IgA, and PATHOZYME-MYCO IgM, were evaluated simultaneously with 298 serum samples from three groups of individuals: 44 patients with active tuberculosis, 204 controls who had unde...

INTRODUCTION The interpretation of the Mantoux test, as well as knowledge of factors that affect the test's induration size, is significant for the early diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. AIMS To determine the Mantoux test induration cut-off size which distinguishes between positive and negative results in Macedonian children suffering from tuberculosis. To find whether there is any corr...

BACKGROUND BCG vaccination alters the response to tuberculin testing and influences the potential validity of the Heaf test in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. This study used a purified protein derivative 1 tuberculin unit (TU) Mantoux test with a cut off of 5 mm induration as an indicator of tuberculous infection in high risk children to determine whether this would distinguish infection from p...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of the tuberculin test in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. METHODS: Test diagnosis study; Tuberculin test with PPD Rt 23 (2 UT) was performed in 158 children, distributed in 2 groups: 101 no tuberculous, BCG vaccinated children and 57 tuberculous ones (diagnosis by clinical-radiological and epidemiological features). The interpretation of the tuberculin...

In a retrospective study, case records of 1061 patients treated with antituberculosis drugs were examined to assess the criteria for diagnosis in each case. Seventy six percent had sputum examined for A.F.B. and 45% had mantoux test done. Five hundred and eighty one (55%) were diagnosed on radiology alone, while 262 (25%) had positive sputum for A.F.B. Only 50 (5%) of cases had positive Mantoux...

RATIONALE Two forms of the IFN-gamma release assay (IFNGRA) to detect tuberculosis infection are available, but neither has been evaluated in comparable HIV-infected and uninfected persons in a high tuberculosis incidence environment. OBJECTIVE To compare the ability of the T-SPOT.TB (Oxford Immunotec, Abingdon, UK), QuantiFERON-TB Gold (Cellestis, Melbourne, Australia), and Mantoux tests to ...

In March 1955, a comparative study of the results of the (Mantoux) intracutaneous tuberculin test, and the patch test, (Vollmer) was carried on in two Los Angeles schools. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the patch should be substituted for the intracutanous test, allowing greater ease of administration, decreased expense, and lessened work load. The schools chosen were...