Negative Mantoux Test (Tuberculin Skin Test): Clinical Interpretation and Guidelines
1. Introduction A negative Mantoux test, clinically known as the tuberculin skin test or purified protein derivative test, indicates that an individual cellular immune system has not mounted a delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction to the injected tuberculosis antigens. In the majority of clinical scenarios, this result suggests that the patient has never been infected with Mycobacterium … Read more