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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...
Autores principales: | Dimoliatis, Ioannis DK, Liaskos, Christos A |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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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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