We fully approve of the establishment of such diagnostic tools everywhere in the country. It is an expensive test at this particular stage but it is worth using, as delay in diagnosing difficult cases such as extrapulmonary is more costly to the patients (as it might cost them their lives
... it is a very bad practice to give prophylaxis to treat dormant tuberculosis based on skin test results as the test has proved its inability to distinguish real infection from exposure to environment tuberculosis or BCG vaccine...."
Sahal Abdulaziz Al-Hajoj
TB Research Unit, Comparative Medicine,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center,
P. O. Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia.
TB Research Unit, Comparative Medicine,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center,
P. O. Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia.
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