The tuberculin skin test: A useful screen for nontuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis in regions with a low prevalence of tuberculosis?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1552-1554

  Hill, A Ross ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHADENITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIAL CERVICOFACIAL LYMPHADENITIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST;

HUMANS; LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SKIN TESTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33845415659     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509334     Document Type: Note

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