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Heaf test

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Heaf test
[hēf]
Etymology: Frederick R.G. Heaf, English physician, 1894-1973
a tuberculin skin test that uses a multiple puncture technique. See also tuberculin test.


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Their father had a grade 2 Heaf test result (and a previous history of BCG) (this is equivalent to a Mantoux response of induration of diameter 5 to 14 mm).
Mycobacterium bovis infection, United Kingdom by O'Neill, Brian / Emerging Infectious Diseases
About 60 patients and 50 staff at the Caludon Centre, in the hospital grounds, have been contacted and given the chance to have chest X-rays and the heaf test for immunity to the disease.
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The skin tests, using the device, known as heaf tests, are given to all pupils aged between 11 and 13.
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