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Forty-six perarelyrarely treat a patient of suspected TB on the basis of a positive Mantoux test alone.
Antifungal therapy (voriconazole, caspofungin or liposomal amphotericin B) was administered at the discretion of the managing physician and not initiated on the sole basis of a positive GM in serum or in BAL fluid.
It is seen that a large proportion of patients (29) were referred for ATT for ocular TB mainly on the basis of a positive Mantoux and/or T-spot result, with normal chest X-ray imaging and no systemic symptoms.
From the survey results, it is noted that less than 50% of the respondents base their treatment on the basis of a positive Mantoux test or positive Quantiferon TB Gold test alone as of now.
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Malaria was diagnosed on the basis of a positive asexual parasitaemia detected on a Giemsa-stained thick smear.
However, we suggest that this approach mirrors clinical practice, in that clinical management decisions are likely to be made on the basis of a positive or negative TST result.
Since the LTBI subjects were defined on the basis of a positive TST reaction, we first evaluated the in vitro PPD-induced IFN-γ secretion by PBMC from LTBI subjects and TB patients compared to that from CTRL.
Eighty (38.5%) children underwent pyloromyotomy without US, purely on the basis of a positive test feed.
