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Tuberculin (PPD) test for health education [Keywords:] Tuberculin; test; health education With the increased incidence of tuberculosis and HIV-TB co-infection continues to increase, more and more popular in recent years tuberculin test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis disease, but in determining the clinical significance of tuberculin skin test results and when lack of knowledge of the medical staff and patients are not properly understood, patients without a reasonable explanation and guidance, and even affect the outcome of the diagnosis. Tuberculin is for testing whether tuberculosis infection, the clinical diagnosis of TB, BCG vaccination immune response after detection of biological products, which is made by the culture filtrate of M. tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis contains the active ingredient for the TB protein. Some rheumatic diseases such as erythema nodosum, reactive arthritis caused by tuberculosis and tuberculosis infection in other closely related; it is in addition to TB examination, the most commonly used imaging examination means. A tuberculin 1.1 Old tuberculin (OT) which is the growth of M. tuberculosis in liquid medium had extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolism, mainly composed of TB protein antigen because of its impurities can cause non-specific reaction [1]. 1.2 purified protein derivative (PPD) is Su Tong’s medium for TB, after sterilization, after ultrafiltration, protein precipitation with trichloroacetic acid to down, and then ether to remove trichloroacetic acid, and then purified TB protein. Domestic supply of freeze-dried products have been made, stable, reflecting the clear, positive rate was slightly higher than the old tuberculin; the BCG 50mg per ml, 1h at 60 of water temperature made of. It tuberculin reaction caused by the general light. 1.3 BCG or other branches of other antimicrobial purified protein derivatives. 2 PPD test methods Used in our hospital with 50IU per 1ml of BCG purified p