Tuberculin Skin Test Reactivity in Right-Handed and left-Handed Children

Authors

Aydın ECE
Necip KUTLU
Akın İŞCAN
Nureddin VURGUN
Nurhan BUKET

Abstract

A study of tuberculin sensitivity was performed on 387 healthy children aged 11-15 to test the hypothesis that non-right handedness is associated with immunological abnormalities. The size of tuberculin indurance was compared in right-handed and left-handed children. Our results demonstrated that there is no significant difference in the size of tuberculin induration between right-handed and left -handed children. We conclude that tuberculin sensitivity is not related to hand perference.

DOI

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Keywords

Handedness, immune system, tuberculin reaction

First Page

147

Last Page

151

Recommended Citation

ECE, A, KUTLU, N, İŞCAN, A, VURGUN, N, & BUKET, N (1997). Tuberculin Skin Test Reactivity in Right-Handed and left-Handed Children. Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences 27 (2): 147-151. https://doi.org/-