Adequacy of standards for assessment of growth and nutritional status in infancy and early childhood
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 80 (2), 121-124
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.80.2.121
Abstract
The predictive value of induration 24 hours after administration of purified protein derivative (PPD) was examined. Altogether 1082 healthy schoolchildren were tested using 5 tuberculin units of PPD. Induration was measured at 24, 48, and 72 hours. At 24 hours, induration of any size had a relatively low positive predictive value (63%), although indurations >5 mm had a higher (86%) positive predictive value.Keywords
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