KROK 1 2018 – Question 123 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
First-year schoolchildren have received tuberculin skin test (Mantoux test) at the school nurse’s office. The purpose of this test was:
- A. To measure immunity stress toward diphtheria
- B. To measure allergization rate toward rickettsia
- C. To preventively vaccinate against tuberculosis
- D. To determine the children that need to receive BCG vaccination
- E. To detect parotitis in the schoolchildren
Hint
Recall what a tuberculin skin reaction actually detects in a person and how that result is used in a public-health programme.
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