Assessment of the agglutination test for tuberculosis.
A new whole cell agglutination test for active tuberculosis, for which encouraging results have recently been reported, has been carried out on the serum of 112 subjects. The results have been disappointing; the test had no predictive value in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis.
D000372:Agglutination Tests; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis*