A 19-year-old woman, Melody, is enrolled in a community college’s physical therapy assistant program. She has just received the required immunizations, and her tuberculin test result is positive. She tells her provider that the same test was negative 2 years ago. 1. What could the positive tuberculin test result mean? 2. What, if any, treatment might be prescribed? 3. If she does not have an active case of TB, what preventive measures could she take? 4. Will she be allowed to remain in the program?

A 19-year-old woman, Melody, is enrolled in a community college’s physical therapy assistant program. She has just received the required immunizations, and her tuberculin test result is positive. She tells her provider that the same test was negative 2 years ago. 1. What could the positive tuberculin test result mean? 2. What, if any, treatment might be prescribed? 3. If she does not have an active case of TB, what preventive measures could she take? 4. Will she be allowed to remain in the program?

Microbiology for Surgical Technologists (MindTap Course List)

2nd Edition

ISBN:9781111306663

Author:Margaret Rodriguez, Paul Price

Publisher:Margaret Rodriguez, Paul Price

Chapter14: Actinobacteria

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