Tuberculin Skin Tests

Mantoux Test, TB Skin Test

References

Other Works Consulted

• Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (2002). Questions and Answers About TB. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005). Guidelines for using the QuantiFERON^®-TB test for diagnosing latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. MMWR, 54(RR-15): 49–55.

• Small PM, Selcer UM (2000). Tuberculosis. In GT Strickland, ed., Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8th ed., pp. 491–513. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

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Author:	Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS	Last Updated: May 18, 2007
Medical Review:	E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Alfred A. Lardizabal, MD - Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine/Tuberculosis
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