contacts of persons with tuberculosis
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Diagnostic procedures
Management
- regardless of results of tuberculin skin testing or IFN-gamma release assay, patients with immunodeficiency with recent exposure to a close contact with tuberculosis should receive chemoprophylaxis for tuberculosis after active disease has been excluded
- patients with immunodeficiency include patients with
More general terms
References
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012