Usage examples (36)

• Mantoux expanded upon Pirquet's ideas and the Mantoux test, in which tuberculin is injected under the skin, became a diagnostic test for tuberculosis in 1907.
• Koch bacillus produces preparatory substances which are not to be found in tuberculin.
• This involves the injection of a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the skin in the lower part of the arm.
• To administer a skin test, a health care worker uses a small needle to put some testing material, called tuberculin, just under the skin on the lower inside part of the arm.