2025年1月17日 · Chest x-ray. Most people with TB disease have TB disease of the lungs. Your health care provider may use a chest x-ray to look for signs of TB disease in your lungs. Laboratory tests. Your health care provider may collect samples from you. A common sample is a sputum (phlegm) specimen to test for TB of the lungs.

2024年6月17日 · These tests may include a chest x-ray, and a test of the sputum (phlegm) you cough up. A negative test result for TB infection means inactive TB or active TB disease is unlikely, but your health care provider may do more tests, especially if: You have symptoms of active TB disease, like coughing, chest pain, fever, weight loss, or tiredness.

2025年1月31日 · Latent TB infection is diagnosed if the person has a positive result from a TB blood test or skin test and a medical evaluation does not indicate TB disease. TB disease is diagnosed by medical history, physical examination, chest x-ray, and other laboratory tests, including culture.

2023年12月19日 · Health care personnel with a prior positive TB test should also receive a chest x-ray or provide documentation of a normal chest x-ray. Repeat chest x-rays are not required unless health care personnel develop signs or symptoms of TB disease or as part of the repeat evaluation prior to starting treatment for latent TB infection.

2024年10月30日 · Chest x-ray. Most people with TB disease have TB disease of the lungs. Your health care provider may use a chest x-ray to look for signs of TB disease in your lungs. Laboratory tests. Your health care provider may collect samples from you. A common sample is a sputum (phlegm) specimen to test for TB of the lungs.

The chest x-ray is useful for diagnosing TB disease because TB disease in the lungs, also known as pulmonary TB, is the most common form of TB disease. For adults without HIV infection, the chest x-ray will usually appear abnormal when a patient has TB disease in the lungs. It may show infiltrates or cavities. In persons with HIV infection and ...

2023年12月15日 · Health care personnel with a previous negative TB test result should be tested immediately and re-tested 8 to 10 weeks after the last known exposure. For consistency, use the same type of TB test (e.g., TB blood test or TB skin test) that was used upon hire (i.e., preplacement) and for any follow-up testing.

2024年12月10日 · Test for TB infection (TB blood test or TB skin test) Chest radiograph. Bacteriologic examination (sputum smear microscopy, nucleic acid amplification testing, culture, and drug susceptibility testing) Culture is the gold standard microbiologic test …

Tuberculosis (TB) screening programs for health care personnel are part of TB infection control plans. CDC recommends all U.S. health care personnel should be screened for TB upon hire. Annual TB testing is not recommended unless there is a known exposure or ongoing transmission. State and local TB regulations may differ.

If the chest x-ray is suggestive of infectious tuberculosis disease, these applicants are Class A TB and must complete tuberculosis disease treatment even if sputum smears and cultures are negative. If the chest x-ray is normal, and the sputum smears and cultures are negative, the applicant can be assigned a Class B1 TB, Extrapulmonary ...