Tuberculin skin test – Outdated or still useful for Latent TB infection screening?

•Tuberculin skin test (TST) is over a century old but it continues to be used widely.•When IGRAs were introduced it was anticipated that they would rapidly replace TST.•Neither TST nor IGRAs have a high accuracy for predicting active TB.•Latest WHO recommendations are that either TST or IGRA can be...

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