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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (10): 1080-1083.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2019.10.003

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Overview of tuberculin products development

Wei-xin DU,Ai-hua ZHAO,Guo-zhi WANG,Jin-biao LU()   

  1. Division of Tuberculosis Vaccines, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Key Laboratory of Research on Quality and Standardization of Biotech Product, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 102629, China
  • Received:2019-08-21 Online:2019-10-10 Published:2019-10-09
  • Contact: Jin-biao LU E-mail:lujinbiao@nifdc.org.cn

Abstract:

The tuberculin products has been developed more than 120 years up to now, with different development stages of old tuberculin, purified protein derivative and new skin test diagnostic reagents. This paper introduced the research history, product characteristics and development trends of tuberculin products in order to make the users know the background knowledge and reasonably apply the products, and meanwhile provide reference for the study of new skin testing diagnostic reagents.

Key words: Tuberculin, Biological products, Tuberculin test, Comment