New guidelines: what to do about an unexpected positive tuberculin skin test.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 12549725.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
The 2000 recommendations for tuberculosis testing from the American Thoracic Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advocate a shift in focus from screening the general population to testing only patients at increased risk of developing tuberculosis.