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Tuberculin Testing in a Tertiary Hospital: Product Variability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph W. Shands Jr ,
Deborah Boeff ,
Loretta Fauerbach  and
Richard R. Gutekunst
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Abstract

Nine percent of 2,721 hospital employees, previously tuberculin negative, were PPD positive when tested with 5 TU of PPD (Aplisol, Parke-Davis). Seventy percent of the positive reactions were found to be erroneous on retesting with Tubersol (Connaught). The excessive potency of Aplisol led to excessive expenditures of time and money investigating a nonexistent outbreak.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 12 , December 1994 , pp. 758 - 760
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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