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2509059

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-12-7
pubmed:abstractText
To evaluate the prevalence of atypical mycobacteria infections in our population, a study was done among students of secondary fifth grade (15-19 years of age) in the community health departments of Maisonneuve-Rosemont in Montreal and of Sherbrooke. The tuberculin used was the RT-23 2 T.U. with Tween 80 and the sensitins prepared by the Statens Serum Institute of Copenhagen from Mycobacterium intracellulare (Battey) and from Mycobacterium kansasii. Each student had a tuberculin test on one arm and a sensitin test on the other. The sensitins were randomly allocated. Depending on how the prevalence is calculated, the Mycobacterium intracellulare infection varies from 3 to 20% in Montreal and from 0 to 9.6% in Sherbrooke. The Mycobacterium kansasii infection is much less important in both regions. All reactions to those atypical mycobacteria are in the range of tuberculin reactions of 0 to 9 mm. In our population which is weakly infected with atypical mycobacteria, the level of positivity of tuberculin reactions to 2 T.U. RT-23 or 5 T.U. P.P.D. would give a more realistic evaluation of M. tuberculosis infection if it was fixed at 5 mm than at 10 mm as it is now.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0008-4263
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
335-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Sensitivity to "atypical" mycobacteria in high school children in two community health departments.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't