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skin tests

Investigations to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by injecting small quantities into or under the skin or by applying the substance under patches (patch tests).

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QuantiFERON is faster, less labor-intensive and more accurate in screening at-risk populations for latent TB infection than the century-old tuberculin skin test.

France,Germany : French Health-system approves reimbursement of QIAGENs QuantiFERON latent TB test

To be safe, doctors label some children as allergic to penicillin, but a skin test to verify the diagnosis rarely happens.

Most penicillin allergies are off base

A TEENAGER who had an horrific allergic reaction after a skin test before colouring her hair is urging others not to be tempted to forgo the allergy test.

Hair dye patch test saved my life, says Sophie

Autologous serum skin test autologous plasma skin test autoimmune chronic urticaria.

Comparative evaluation of autologous serum skin test and autologous plasma skin test in chronic urticaria

Generally, health officials recommended substituting blood tests for tuberculin skin tests during the shortage, giving skin tests to "priority indications" such as people at high risk for TB infection and substituting the product Aplisol for Tubersol in skin testing.

CDC issues alert on TB skin test shortage

Skin tests were diagnostic in a further 5% of patients.

Epidemiology of hypersensitivity reactions to penicillin in Slovenia

The reasons for this were not reported, but in at least one instance it was because of a positive skin test (personal communication, D.

Anaphylaxis to patent blue dye--misadventure or misdemeanour?

these are presumed to be false-positive tuberculin skin tests, he said).

Interferon-gamma TB tests not yet ready for prime time

Of subjects with positive results of skin tests, 21 (84%) were living in urban and 4 (16%) in rural areas.

Cockroach sensitivity in Iranian asthmatic children under the age of five years/Astimi Olan Iran'li bes yas cocuklarda hamam bocegi duyarliligi

Skin tests can also be done, though there is a small chance of a serious reaction to the food when it's scratched into the skin.

Milk allergy

He said: "Thirty children returned positive skin tests.

30 pupils test positive for tuberculosis at girls school

Zinc is implicated in false-negative skin tests because it modulates cutaneous reactions (2,3), because zinc deficiency is common in people with TB (5), and because this deficiency also suppresses antimycobacterial immunity (4,5).