Influence of Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination on Size of Tuberculin Skin Test Reaction: To What Size?

15 January 2005

journal article
clinical trial
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Vol. 40 (2) , 211-217
https://doi.org/10.1086/426434

Abstract

Background. Previous bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination can confound the results of a tuberculin skin test (TST). We sought to determine a cutoff diameter of TST induration beyond which the influence of BCG vaccination was negligible in evaluating potential Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a population of health care workers with a high vaccination rate and low incidence of tuberculosis.

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