Procedure How to Read Results Side Effects/Risks What is the tuberculosis PPD skin test? Tuberculosis Test. Image Source; Getty Images The tuberculosis skin test (also known as PPD, tuberculin, or Mantoux) determines if someone has developed an immune response to the bacterium that causes ...
A simple and inexpensive procedure lilke the purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test may be alternative marker of disease progression in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals. The correlation between the PPD induced skin induration and the CD4 T lymphocyte levels (absolute CD4 ...