New guidelines: What to do about an unexpected positive tuberculin skin test

  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • January 2003,
  • 70
  • (1)
  • 49-55;

ABSTRACT

The 2000 recommendations for tuberculosis testing from the American Thoracic Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advocate a shift in focus from screening the general population to testing only patients at increased risk of developing tuberculosis.

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