Tuberculin conversion in Indochinese refugees
| العنوان: | Tuberculin conversion in Indochinese refugees |
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| المؤلفون: | Deborah Bickel |
| المصدر: | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 250:1978-1978 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Medical Association (AMA), 1983. |
| سنة النشر: | 1983 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | High rate, Negative PPD, medicine.medical_specialty, Refugees, Positive ppd, business.industry, Tuberculin Test, Refugee, Tuberculin, General Medicine, Disease control, United States, Food and drug administration, Family medicine, medicine, Humans, False Positive Reactions, business, Asia, Southeastern |
| الوصف: | To the Editor.— The article by Morse et al (1982;248:2983) concerning the high rate of tuberculin conversion in Indochinese refugees describes an alarming rate of conversion reactions over six months in our largest refugee group. Notable by its absence was any reference to the problem of faulty Aplisol (tuberculin). This PPD preparation has been implicated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in a letter published Sept 23, 1982, stating that, "based on the best information available to CDC and FDA [Food and Drug Administration] all lots of Aplisol released since September 1980 may have been associated with increased reactivity." According to a CDC memorandum dating from July 13, 1982, 92% of those persons thought to have a positive PPD when Aplisol was used had a negative PPD when retested with Tubersol (tuberculin). Furthermore, all Aplisol until a few months ago was prepared from the same master batch dating from |
| تدمد: | 1538-3598 0098-7484 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.250.15.1978 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::52ecde91b741fbd101276e6edc539e79 https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.250.15.1978 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....52ecde91b741fbd101276e6edc539e79 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15383598 00987484 |
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| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.250.15.1978 |