Tuberculin Skin Tests Among Medical Students with Prior Bacille-Calmette Guérin Vaccination in a Setting with a High Prevalence of Tuberculosis

Overview

Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health

Date 2009 Jun 6

PMID 19496654

Citations 4

Authors

Thana Khawcharoenporn

Anucha Apisarnthanarak

Kanokporn Thongphubeth

Chananart Yuekyen

Linda M Mundy

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Abstract

Presence of a bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination scar in medical students was an independent factor associated with initial tuberculin skin test reactions of 10-19 mm (P=.03) and booster effects of 6-9 mm (P=.02). These findings suggest that an initial tuberculin skin test reaction of at least 20 mm or a booster effect of at least 10 mm will reveal tuberculosis among students with prior bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination.

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