title: Finding recent tuberculous infection in New Orleans. Results of tuberculin skin tests on New Orleans children from the inner city and Contact Investigation Program.
abstract: We tested infants and preschool-age children from the New Orleans Health Department programs for tuberculosis contact investigation and for tuberculin skin testing. About 7.8% (34 of 438) of the contacts and about 0.78% (107 of 13,797) of those given skin tests were tuberculosis-infected. Both programs, we concluded, detected enough recent tuberculous infection to be worthwhile as screening procedures.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007538:Isoniazid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008145:Louisiana; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D007538:Isoniazid