Sentence examples for tuberculin from inspiring English sources

That distinguishes them from those who have merely been vaccinated against the disease: they do not react to MBP64, but do come out positive, along with the actively infected, in tuberculin testing.

In 1906 August von Wassermann gave his name to the blood test for syphilis, and in 1908 the tuberculin test the skin test for tuberculosis came into use.

For a variable number of years after BCG vaccination, many people show a local skin reaction to the purified protein derived skin test (also called tuberculin skin test).

As professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Graz, Austria (1889 93), he attempted to induce fevers in mental patients through the administration of tuberculin (an extract of the tubercle bacillus), but the program met with only limited success.

The tuberculin test is based on a delayed hypersensitivity reaction.

Isoniazid commonly is used in combination with other drugs, such as rifampin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide, or streptomycin; these drugs are used with isoniazid in order to prevent, or at least delay, the development of isoniazid-resistant strains of tuberculin bacilli.

"But to say we want cows that have passed the tuberculin test doesn't," he added.

Losses in the dairy section over the years include UHT milk, TT (Tuberculin Tested) milk and reduced-cost welfare milk.

Those involve the laborious process of "tuberculin-testing" with injections of a mixture of tuberculosis proteins, followed by chest X-rays and finally the isolation of the guilty bacteria from a patient's sputum.

According to Sequella, early trials show that the patch picks up 98% of those infected, yields few false positives and is easier to use in the field than tuberculin-testing, since no needles are required.

Two common examples of delayed hypersensitivity that illustrate the various consequences of type IV reactions are tuberculin-type and contact hypersensitivity.