Six Mantoux tuberculin skin tests with 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 units in a healthy male without side-effects – is skin reaction a linear function of tuberculin dose?

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis remains a serious disease worldwide. Anti-tuberculosis campaigners many times face negative tuberculin skin tests after Bacille Calmette Guérin vaccination. Increasing tuberculin units might be a solution. However, is skin reaction a linear function of tuberculin dose? Are t...

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Autores principales: Dimoliatis, Ioannis DK, Liaskos, Christos A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18715513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-115

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18715513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-115

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