[Selection of the cutoff value on tuberculin skin test in diagnosing tuberculosis infection: a population-based cross-sectional study in Eastern China].
Peng Lü, Qiao Liu, Limei Zhu, Wen Kong, Xiaoyan Ding, Yang Zhou, Wei Lu
PubMed · 2020-03
Abstract
Findings of this study confirmed that the specificity of tuberculin test could be significantly improved by using 10-12 mm as the cutoff value for diagnosing the latent tuberculosis infection.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculin
- Cutoff
- Tuberculosis
- Gold standard (test)
- Skin test
- Internal medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Cross-sectional study
- Population
- Surgery