Table 3 Mean percentage of correct answers in diagnosis and treatment

 Sputum test is necessary to detect suspected pulmonary TB

 Chest x-ray is recommended when someone has a positive tuberculin skin test

 Lung, brain, kidney could be affected by M. Tuberculosis

 Positive intradermal reaction test indicates increased sensitization to drugs

 First contact with bacteria causes a primary complex

 Patients and health operators which come in contact with a TB patient should receive PPD test

 PPD test is positive from an induration diameter of 5 mm

 PPD test is an intradermal injection

 The immune response to TB is cell mediated

  “Quantiferon TB gold” test can differentiate infection from other reasons for testing positive

 It is an expression of immune response to mycobacterial antigens which is not a limit of tuberculin skin test.

 After 5 weeks, the primary infection does tuberculin test result will become positive

 Tine test is a multiple puncture test

 Koch bacillus identification is always performed through Ziehl–Neelsen stain

 Penicillin G is not useful for TB treatment

 In case of positive PPD test in an exposed health operator, he/she should be assessed for further investigations and for prophylactic treatment with isoniazid

 Prophylactic treatment with isoniazid is implemented to close contacts resulted negative to the test

 Consider an active TB woman in homecare therapy who has recently discovered to be pregnant, she should be informed that tuberculosis does not increase the risk of miscarriage and treatment should be changed because there is a potential risk of toxicity for the child

 TB patient supposed to be hospitalized for an effective treatment every 7–10 days