title: [The importance of the tuberculin test in adults with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis].
abstract: The tuberculin skin test is used worldwide to assess the tuberculosis infection in humans and animals. It is conventionally admitted that a reaction larger than 10 mm expresses a consumptive infection. It is possible to find a reaction smaller than 10 mm in patients with active disease, like bacteriological confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis, that is a negative reaction. 1719 patients with recently discovered bacteriological confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis were tested with PPD-IC65 solution 2 U/0.1 ml; 497 of them (28.9%) reacted less than 10 mm; 151 of these were retested with PPD solution 10 U/0.1 ml, in 11.5% of them the test was negative.
authors.affiliation: Clinica de Pneumoftiziologie a U.M.F. Craiova.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niţu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Semnificaţia testului tuberculinic la adulţii cu tuberculoză pulmonară confirmată bacteriologic.