what does positive tuberculin test mean in a vaccinated person?
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WOW... so many wrong answers... There is a vaccine to TB, it was used in most 3rd world countries until very recently, it's called BCG.  It was stopped recently primarly due to the quality of some of the vaccinations as well as the variety of medications to safely and effectively treat TB. \n If you received the BCG vaccination you would have an approximately 1cm indention on your upper arm where the injection was administered.  \nYour PPD test or TB test that they inject into your arm will always come back positive, b/c your body will have antibodies to TB (which is what a PPD test is checking for)\nIf your TB test comes back postive, you must follow up with a chest x-ray showing that you have no active infection with TB.
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most people have the hep b virus in their blood when they get vaccinated. if you get a vaccine, then you should show up positive for it. do you mean, what will happen if you get diagnosed with hep b?
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sick or not if you are positive you are positive- being sick does not give you the disease -the quicker it is diagnosed and treatment started the longer you will probably have less symptoms and go into full blown AIDS later-better than sooner- D
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Is your titre for Hep B antibody or antigen?\n\nThe immunisation programme for Hep B consists of a course of three doses of vaccine, the first dose is followed four weeks later by the second; the third dose is given five months later. \n\nA blood test should be taken approximately three months after the third injection to estimate the antibody titre (the response to the vaccine). If the titre is not high enough a booster dose will be needed, followed by a second blood test after a three month interval. A percentage of the population will not produce immunity, they are classed as ‘vaccine non-responders’.\n\nThe titre is the concentration of the Hepatitis B surface antibody. If your Hep B antibody test is negative then you must have a Hepatitis B antigen titer(Ag HBs).\n\nA Hep B surface antibody of >10 should be sufficient to provide immunity (ie. you are protected).
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Shots don't hurt, they just upset you to watch.  If you look the other way before the nurse/doctor sticks the needle in you, you might not even know when it goes in.\n\nGetting tuberculosis should scare you a whole lot more than getting a shot for it!
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TB is very contagious. It is spread by droplets. Meaning when someone coughs microscopic droplets hang in the air and you breath them in. You can get TB ANYWHERE!. The mall, in line at a store etc.\nSome people will have a positive skin reaction. But that does not mean that all the time that they have it. It is an indication that they were exposed. Once you test positive on your skin you go for a chest xray. and never have another skin test just a yearly chest xray to make sure you do not have active TB.\n\nAND NO YOU WILL NOT BE FIRED FROM YOUR JOB IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD\n\nYou will just have to take a six month course of medication.
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Any person with a low white blood cell count, child or not, indicates there is an infection somewhere.
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PPD/mantoux test which is a small injection that goes under the top layer of skin, it is then read in 48-72hours to see if there is a reaction. a positive reaction would be an area of raised skin 5 to 10mm around the injection site, depending on the risk factor of the person. in order for it to be accurate it should be redone in 2 to 4 weeks
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Yes tuberculosis is highly contagious. I think your question was to the effect that if a person with TB was at a place and left, and then later you show up could you get it. The answer to that is no. It is spread by respiratory droplets. So if say you were talking or near someone with TB and they coughed, sang, whistled, yelled or even just spoke you could stand the chance of being exposed to the TB bacteria. More people have been exposed to the TB bacteria than at any other time in history. Very scary.
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No. It means that you are MORE likely to get sick, either immediately, or later in life.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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I'm not a Dr. but I believe that it is negative because is says no dna from the M.tuberculosis complex was detected.  The sensitivity tells that the test should detect it with a 95% accuracy. The note just tells which method of testing should be done.  At least that is what I would make out of it.  Why can't they just give a straight negative or positive.  It would make things much easier wouldn't it?
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Unusual skin reaction to sterile diluent in tuberculin test.\n\nWolk BM.\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=5567977&dopt=Abstract
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ELISA(Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay)- a type of blood test to detect the antibodies to a suspected infecting organism.
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bein HIV positive it didnt mean you have AIDS, that happens when your defense cells get to a little number and you get sick, (pneumonia, kaposi, lynphoma, diarrea, etc) Magic is usin an antiviral tratment it stops the progression of the disease and keeps him wit a high count of inmune cells, eventually if the disease progres (because the virus mutates and grow again) he will have AIDS
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Do NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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There is sometimes a flu-like illness when someone is infected, when they are going through what is called seroconversion, which is when the body is developing antibodies in response to the infection. A person can have virus in their body before there are enough antibodies to result in a positive test. Most of the time there are no symptoms at all.\n\nIf there is any chance of being infected, a person should get an HIV test. There are many clinics that will do this free, anonymously, and counseling and treatment are available.\n\nSomeone can be HIV positive and able to pass the infection to others for many years without having any symptoms.
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Vaccinations are actually weaker versions of the actually disease you're suppose to be fighting. After a flu vaccination, you get the symptoms of a flu because now you have a weaker antigen in your body, and your body starts to react to fight it [i.e running nose, fever...].\n\nThe vaccination is to help you build up an immunity against the disease by having the anitbodies take on the antigens directly. Then the memory cells of your body will be able to detect and remember how to fight this disease or illness in the near future.