mantoux test using 2 iu of tuberculin prepared in iran was performed on 6675 healthy persons randomly selected from an urban population (shiraz) of iran. in 3776 persons with no evidence of previous bcg vaccination the rate of positive reaction was less than 2% up to the age of 14, slightly more than 2% among those 15-19 years of age, but strikingly higher (45.5%) in older age groups (p<0.001)....

Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health problem. Childhood tuberculosis is a common and highly prevalent disease amongst pediatric population causing high morbidity and mortality. India accounts for nearly 1/3rd of global burden of T.B. every year. Mantoux test was positive in 60% of cases, which still remains as an important diagnostic tool. In 92% of cases there was radiological eviden...

Until some time ago, the tuberculin skin test was the only available screening test for the diagnosis of tubercular infection. Now the new interferon-? release assay QuantiFERON-TB Gold shows promise of greater accuracy in the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected subjects. The aim of our study was to evaluate the use of QuantiFERONTB Gold in children and to verify its agreement with...

BACKGROUND Delayed or missed diagnosis of TB continues to fuel the global TB epidemic, especially in resource limited settings. Use of serology for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, commonly used in India, is another factor. In the present study a commercially available serodiagnostic assay was assessed for its diagnostic value in combination with smear, culture and clinical manifestations. METH...

METHOD OF TESTING. For all, except a few who are specially mentioned, this was the Mantoux test. Owing to the impossibility of recalling all the clinic attenders for a second test, the Mantoux test using .01 mgm. of Old Tuberculin (O.T., 0.1 ml. in 1/10,000 dilution) had to be accepted in these. All others were tested with 1 mgm. O.T. (0.1 ml. in 1/100 dilution). Tuberculin jelly (3 per cent. O...

Skin test reactions to PPD applied by Mantoux techniques were compared with reactions to tuberculin tine test (PPD-tine); tuberculin, old tine test (OT tine); Aplitest; and Mono-Vacc, tuberculin, old (Mono-Vacc) in newly arrived refugees from Cambodia and Laos. The reaction to Mantoux test was accepted as the "true reading" and compared to the reaction size to one of the multiple puncture tests...

current guidelines suggest that the ppd mantoux tuberculin test should be read after 48 or 72 hours. we have compared the measurements at these time points. a 5-tuberculin unit (tu) ppd mantoux test was administered to 100 subjects (91% with bacillus calmette- guerin scars). induration was measured 48 and 72 hours following the injection. results the measurements made at 72nd hour were signific...