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VIEILLE TUBERCULINE [3 records]

Record 1 1998-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
CONT

All personnel are required to have post-deployment PPD testing after returning from UN duty provided the last test was negative. As it usually takes four to six weeks for skin test conversion from negative to positive after contact with tuberculosis, it is recommended that the routine post-deployment PPD test be done six weeks after returning from duty.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
OBS

Le test à la tuberculine est un appoint important pour le diagnostic. La substance test standard est un dérivé protéique purifié (DPP) stabilisé par addition d’un détergent au polysorbate.

OBS

La "vieille tuberculine" a été progressivement remplacée par un dérivé protéique purifié(tuberculine PPD) utilisé en injection intradermique à la dose de 0, 1 mcg(5U) de tuberculine PPD standardisée.

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
DEF

A Test of tuberulin sensitivity in which a tined instrument coated with old tuberculin is used to inoculate the forearm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
OBS

"le tinetest" dans la Revue médicale de Liège, 15 juin 1982, vol. 37, no. 12, p. 488.

Spanish

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Record 3 1985-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
Key term(s)
  • old tuberculin

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
OBS

Bactériologie (ann. pharm. fr., XIV(4], 264-266 (1956)

Spanish

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