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Agarwal and Agarwal (2006). A Diagnostic evaluation of mantroucx textaccuracy in diagnosis of chronic illness a tuberculoais. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 19(1), pp.53-59.
Journal
of Ravishankar University Vol.19 No. B (Science) 2006 pp 53-59 ISSN 0970-5910
A Diagnostic
evaluation of mantroucx textaccuracy in diagnosis of chronic illness a
tuberculoais
Anju Agarwal & Anil K. Agarwal
Department of community medicine,
G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.)
Abstract: total 330 cases of years age group who
had contact of tuberculosis indirectly or directly and had chronic illness was
screened for tuberculosis out of 330 cases, 268 cases were diagnosed as
tuberculosis. Special emphasis was given on Mantoux Test (M.T.), though the
baltary of tests were done to diagnose tuberculosis.
Out of 28 cases of tuberculosis M.T. was positive
in 160 cases 4885 and repeat M.T. was done after 3 weeks and was converted to
positive in 22 cases (6.67%). Thus only M.P. help in diagnosis of tuberculosis
in almost 67.16% of the cases.
Keywords: Mantroux Text; Children's (2-12 yrs), B.C.G., ELISA
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