Another rheumatoid arthritis patient (
WarmSocks) plays with her
alphabet soup;
The DTBE of the CDC established the TBESC for purposes of TB research. How accurate is PPD in people who’ve had prior BCG? Is IGRA more accurate than TST? What is the difference between T-SPOT.TB and QFT-G?
Anyway, WarmSocks' doctor said that you should make sure that you don’t have TB before prescribing medication and so off she goes
Even though my doctor said I needed a TB test, and wrote TB on the lab slip (in addition to all the regular tests ordered), a skin test wasn’t done.
... I discovered that there is a blood test for tuberculosis. I’d only known of the skin test.
