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What is latent and active tuberculosis?

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Dr. Jay Park answered

Need chest X-ray: Positive TB skin test simply means tested person was exposed to an active case of tb. If the person remains asymptomatic (free of active disease signs, e.g., weight loss, night sweat, cough, etc) with negative chest x-ray, he (she) has a latent tb.

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Answered 6/10/2014

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