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! style="background: #4479BA; width: 150px;" | {{fontcolor|#FFF|Tuberculin Rection}} | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''≥ 5 mm ''' | |||
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*HIV-positive person | |||
*Recent contacts of TB case | |||
*Persons with nodular or fibrotic changes on CXR consistent with old healed TB | |||
*Patients with organ transplants and other immunosuppressed patients | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''≥ 10 mm ''' | |||
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*Recent arrivals (less than 5 years) from high-prevalent countries | |||
*Injection drug users | |||
*Residents and employees of high-risk congregate settings (e.g., prisons, nursing homes, hospitals, homeless shelters, etc.) | |||
*Mycobacteriology lab personnel | |||
*Persons with clinical conditions that place them at high risk (e.g., diabetes, prolonged corticosteroid therapy, leukemia, end-stage renal disease, chronic malabsorption syndromes, low body weight, etc) | |||
*Children less than 4 years of age, or children and adolescents exposed to adults in high-risk categories | |||
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''≥ 15 mm ''' | |||
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*Persons with no known risk factors for TB | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:10, 4 September 2014
Tuberculin Rection | Considered a Positive Result in: |
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≥ 5 mm |
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≥ 10 mm |
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≥ 15 mm |
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