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tuberculin test [tə′bər·kyə·lən ‚test] (immunology) A test for past or present infection with tubercle bacilli based on a delayed hypersensitivity reaction at the site where tuberculin or purified protein derivative was introduced. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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7B is not an antivaccination statement from Boston in 1902 but, as the engraving itself indicates, a provaccine statement from England in 1898; vaccination with Mycobacterium bovis BCG does not cause the tuberculin test result to be negative; and malaria control efforts in the United States were not interrupted by World War II but, on the contrary, were enhanced by the creation of an agency called Malaria Control in War Areas. Instead, it showed caseous necrosis, which was followed by a positive culture and a positive tuberculin test. Repeated negative tuberculin tests, however, practically eliminate TB as a possible etiology. |
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