tuberculin test
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A positive tuberculin test means that the patient has been exposed to the bacteria and exhibits a cellular immune response to it.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The classical test for delayed hypersensitivity is the tuberculin test for tuberculosis, where bacterial proteins from M. tuberculosis are injected into the skin.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
More than 80% of the cows of this county have been shown by the tuberculin test to be tuberculous, yet McHenry County supplies Chicago with most of its milk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every member is X-rayed once a year, given a tuberculin test, a complete clinical examination, a Wassermann and Kahn test for syphilis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Interpretation of the Positive Subcutaneous Tuberculin Reaction: Occurrence of reaction, following the subcutaneous tuberculin test, signifies the existence of infection; it does not signify that the individual is clinically tuberculous.
From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various
