[Clinical assessment of modified segmental tuberculin test in infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis and community-acquired pneumonia].

: The atypical course of pneumonias (without significant intoxication and bronchopulmonary syndromes) is now notified and the incidence of nonspecific changes in the lower lung has increased. The authors propose to use a modified segmental tuberculin test in the differential diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis. This test has revealed that in community-acquired pneumonia, the average sizes of papules do not differ in the bilateral suprascapular regions and they are significantly less than on the fore-arm when the Mantoux test with 2TE whereas in infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, the largest papules are recorded above a specific inflammatory focus and their size is larger than that on the intact side and forearm.