Can a transplant patient be tested for TB without complicating his non-immune system? A person where my son works was taken away from the plant today having been diagnosed with TB. My son is a double transplant patient. Received Pancreas/Kidney 6 yrs ago. If all staff have to be tested, I am concerned about the test, It is live virus that is used in the test. YYYY@YYYY
Thanks for asking your query completely understand your problem actually tuberculosis is caused by bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis and the test to see if a person is having exposure to tuberculosis is contour test in which PPD is used that does not cause tuberculosis and if you are asking about vaccine that is BCG vaccine, yes that is live vaccine, but it has a very little role in protecting against pulmonary tb it usually protects against military or meningeal tb .as for me, I'll not prefer giving BCG vaccine to an immunocompromised patient, but the policies are different in different parts of world.thanks feel free to ask more questions