Sunlight and the Mantoux reaction

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 231-232

  Kuchel, Johanna M ^a   Halliday, Gary M ^a   Barnetson, Ross Stc ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SUNLIGHT; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; TUBERCULIN TEST; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036798701     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550203200417     Document Type: Article

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