The following scenario emphasizes the necessity of creating a wheal while administering the Mantoux test. A 46-year-old Asian man who recently immigrated to the United States was seen for routine ...

Results of intradermal tuberculin skin tests using hypodermic jet equipment were compared with results obtained by the standard Mantoux needle-syringe technique in a study of 1,478 Vietnamese mental ...

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THAT the tuberculin test can become negative with measles has been known since the report of Pirquet 1 in 1908. At that time he gave credit to Preisich, in Budapest, who had found in November, 1907, ...

When administered correctly, the Mantoux test can be an invaluable tool for the detection of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease with serious medical consequences. It is caused by the ...