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Tuberculin Test

Known as: testing tuberculin, skin testing tuberculin, skin test tuberculosis 
A test to determine if a subject has ever had a tuberculosis infection. A small amount of purified tuberculosis protein is placed under the skin of… 
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Broader (4)

Hypersensitivity skin testingIntradermal TestsVaccineTypecommunicable disease diagnosis (procedure)
Interferon-gamma Release TestsLaboratory ProceduresPurified Protein Derivative of TuberculinSkin

Narrower (2)

Mantoux testtine test

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Comparison of two interferon-gamma assays and tuberculin skin test for tracing tuberculosis contacts.
BACKGROUND The tuberculin skin test (TST) has low specificity. QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT-G) and T-SPOT.TB are based on interferon… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
T-cell assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: moving the research agenda forward.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Use in routine clinical practice of two commercial blood tests for diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a prospective study
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Human T-cell responses to 25 novel antigens encoded by genes of the dormancy regulon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Review
2002
Review
2002
A meta-analysis of the effect of Bacille Calmette Guérin vaccination on tuberculin skin test measurements
Background: The accurate diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is an important component of any tuberculosis control… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Comparison of a whole-blood interferon gamma assay with tuberculin skin testing for detecting latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
CONTEXT Identifying persons with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is crucial to the goal of TB elimination. A whole-blood… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Dynamics of biochemical and biophysical reactions: insight from computer simulations
1. Introduction 563 2. Obtaining rate constants from molecular-dynamics simulations 564 2.1 General relationships between quantum… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A field evaluation of serological and cellular diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis.
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Respiration and abnormal sleep in patients with congestive heart failure.
We investigated the interaction between respiration and sleep in ten male outpatients with severe, stable, maximally treated… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Mycobacterial infections in renal transplant recipients: report of five cases and review of the literature.
Five cases of mycobacterial disease in renal transplant recipients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were studied… 
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