PPD test

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• PPD — may refer to:;Science and Medicine * p Phenylenediamine, aromatic amine * Paranoid personality disorder, psychiatric diagnosis * Postpartum depression, after childbirth * Purified protein derivative or Mantoux test, for tuberculosis testing *… …   Wikipedia

• PPD — ist die Abkürzung für: Partido por la Democracia, eine sozialdemokratische Partei in Chile Postpartale Depression (Wochenbettdepression) PostScript Printer Description, eine Datei, die einen bestimmten Drucker beschreibt. (Wird mittlerweile auch… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Test Mantoux — Le test de sensibilité à la tuberculine ou test Mantoux, pour le dépistage de la tuberulose. Le test Mantoux (ou test de dépistage Mantoux, test de sensibilité à la tuberculine, test Pirquet, ou test PPD (pour Purified Protein Derivative :… …   Wikipédia en Français

• PPD — La sigla PPD se puede referir a las siguientes acepciones: En política Partido por la Democracia, partido político progresista de Chile. Partido Popular Democrático, partido político liberal de Puerto Rico. En medicina Derivado Proteico… …   Wikipedia Español

• PPD — (= purified protein derivative) Protein purified from the culture supernatant of tubercle bacteria ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis S and used as a test antigen in Heaf and Mantoux tests …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• Mantoux test — The Mantoux skin test consists of an intradermal injection of exactly one tenth of a milliliter (mL) of PPD tuberculin …   Wikipedia

• Mantoux test — noun A skin test for tuberculosis, involving an injection of PPD (purified protein derivative). Syn: PPD test …   Wiktionary

• Mantoux test — Test for tuberculin reactivity in which tuberculin PPD (purified protein derivative) is injected intracutaneously. The injection site is examined after 2 3 days, a positive reaction, indicating current or previous infection with Mycobacterium… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• Mantoux test — Man·toux test .man .tü , .män n an intradermal test for hypersensitivity to tuberculin that indicates past or present infection with tubercle bacilli see TUBERCULIN TEST Man·toux män tü Charles (1877 1947) French physician. Mantoux introduced his …   Medical dictionary

• tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection. [1900 05] * * * ▪ medicine       procedure for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection by the introduction into… …   Universalium

• Heaf test — a skin test to determine whether or not an individual is immune to tuberculosis, carried out prior to vaccination. A spring loaded gun mounted with very short needles produces a circle of six punctures in the forearm through which tuberculin is… …   Medical dictionary