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Tb test site bled right after injection. can this give a false positive?obviously, it was not intradermal. don't answer if you don't know how to.
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Check with your doc: The test was not appropriately administered. You want to ask your doc for a new one. Or get the igra blood test which is better anyway. The skin test is almost in the museum of history of medicine.
Answered 4/19/2013
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