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To the Editor: The article by Kenyon et al. (April 11 issue)¹ is reassuring to the air traveler, but I question two classification decisions made by the authors that may have affected their results and conclusions.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, indurations of 5 mm or larger on tuberculin skin testing should be classified as positive in close contacts of a person with infectious tuberculosis.² In the study by Kenyon et al., the induration had to be 10 mm or larger for the test to be classified as positive. Would the number of positive skin tests, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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