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latent tuberculosis |
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latent tuberculosis Infectious disease Infection with M tuberculosis that has been contained by the host's immune system and thus does not infect others Diagnosis Tuberculin skin test; release of IFN-γ in blood after PPD
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Persistently elevated T celi interferon-gamma responses after treatment for latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers in India: a preliminary report. The court held that the prison regulation that requires segregated housing of inmates who refuse to submit to a test for latent tuberculosis did not violate the First Amendment rights of the inmate, because the regulation was rationally related to a legitimate penological interest in retarding the spread of a deadly disease. He and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health are now collecting tissue samples for analysis from patients with latent tuberculosis in Korea, and hope to expand this effort to include Stanford Hospital as well as other sites in California and in Russia. |
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