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What are the tools used for diagnosis?
Stethescope
CXR
AFB (Acid Fast Bacilli) stain and LM can be used to diagnose. But this requires training, and even in the best cases can be non-specific.
- This also requires cultures, which in the US require stringent safety methods
Tuberculin Skin Testing - test for LATENT infection. threshold depends on the pt. If HIV / immunesupressed, threshold is lower.
Quantiferon-Gold. Use IELISA to see how much IFN-##\gamma#
ELISPOT-TB. newset one
CXR
AFB (Acid Fast Bacilli) stain and LM can be used to diagnose. But this requires training, and even in the best cases can be non-specific.
- This also requires cultures, which in the US require stringent safety methods
Tuberculin Skin Testing - test for LATENT infection. threshold depends on the pt. If HIV / immunesupressed, threshold is lower.
Quantiferon-Gold. Use IELISA to see how much IFN-##\gamma#
ELISPOT-TB. newset one
