Reliability of the multiple puncture tuberculin test compared with the mantoux test

Stewart, C.J.; Carpenter, Rick; McCauley, Patrick G.; Barry, Mary; Embleton, Dennis; Zwanenberg, D. van; Dent, R G

doi:10.1016/s0041-3879(58)80041-0

Tubercle

1958

DOI: 10.1016/s0041-3879(58)80041-0

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Reliability of the multiple puncture tuberculin test compared with the mantoux test

C.J. Stewart

Rick Carpenter

Patrick G. McCauley

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The Heaf Multiple Puncture Tuberculin Test

Andersen¹,

Smith²

1960

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Pediatricians and public health authorities alike have recently displayed renewed interest in tuberculous infections in children. Recent studies both in this country 1 and in France2 have shown beyond doubt that administration of antituberculous drugs to children with positive tuberculin tests decreases the chance of active tuberculous disease appearing within the ensuing year, so that it becomes desirable to detect infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis soon after it has taken place. This can best be done by carrying out tuberculin tests at rather frequent intervals, e.g., once or preferably twice a year. There is now, more than ever before, a clear need for a simple, reliable method for performing tuberculin tests, so that they can be performed repeatedly on large groups of young people.The tuberculin patch test which, it was hoped, would serve such a purpose has proved disappointing, yielding as it does both false positive and false negative readings.3,4In 1951 there appeared in the Lancet an article entitled "The Multiple-Puncture

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The Heaf Multiple Puncture Tuberculin Test

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Smith²

1960

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Comparison of the heaf (multiple puncture) and mantoux tests using several tuberculins

Carruthers

1969

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Observer and experimental variation in tuberculin testing

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1970

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Reliability of the multiple puncture tuberculin test compared with the mantoux test

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

The Heaf Multiple Puncture Tuberculin Test

The Heaf Multiple Puncture Tuberculin Test

Comparison of the heaf (multiple puncture) and mantoux tests using several tuberculins

Observer and experimental variation in tuberculin testing

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