Increase in tuberculin skin test (TST) response after an initially negative ... A condition in which at least part of the immune system is functioning at less than normal capacity. Inactive pulmonary ...

Doctors and healthcare professionals can perform a PPD skin test to test for TB. Medicare Part B may cover eligible costs if your healthcare team decides to perform this test to help diagnose TB ...

Dr Riviglione said: "Multi-drugresistant TB without the correct drugs is untreatable and in most cases fatal. Though curing 'normal' TB is cheap and effective - a six-month course of medicines ...