The Tuberculin Skin Test: A Useful Screen for Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lymphadenitis in Regions with a Low Prevalence of Tuberculosis? | Zendy

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The Tuberculin Skin Test: A Useful Screen for Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lymphadenitis in Regions with a Low Prevalence of Tuberculosis?

Author(s) -

A. Ross Hill

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/509334

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , tuberculin , vaccination , nontuberculous mycobacteria , skin test , immunology , dermatology , mycobacterium , pathology

Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006;43:1552-4 ? 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. 1058-4838/2006/4312-0004$15.00 idemiologic factors besides the decrease in rates of TB. In developed countries, the low rates of M. tuberculosis infection and, in some, the cessation of vaccination with bacille Calmette-Guerin have left children more susceptible to symptomatic NTM infection because of a lack of collateral

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