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

Authors

Aydın ECE
Necip KUTLU
Akın İŞCAN
Nureddin VURGUN
Nurhan BUKET

DOI

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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.

Keywords

Handedness, immune system, tuberculin reaction

First Page

147

Last Page

151

Recommended Citation

ECE, Aydın; KUTLU, Necip; İŞCAN, Akın; VURGUN, Nureddin; and BUKET, Nurhan (1997) "Tuberculin Skin Test Reactivity in Right-Handed and left-Handed Children," Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences: Vol. 27: No. 2, Article 10. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/medical/vol27/iss2/10