How to Use skin test in a Sentence
skin test
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If so, a blood or skin test, or sometimes both, can be used to check for the allergy.
—Mayo Clinic Q & A, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
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While in the lab, the team conducted five tests: a strip test, paper test, fabric test, hair test, and skin test.
—Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
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One disadvantage is that the blood test is much more expensive than the skin test.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
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The goal is also to focus its resources and revenue growth on the company’s melanoma skin test.
—Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
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Follow-up skin tests will be given at the school in May to students who test negative on the first test, officials said.
—Anna Beahm, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Students and staff who may have had contact with the disease will be notified and should have a TB skin test, officials said.
—Anna Beahm, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Allergy tests come in three main categories: skin tests, blood tests, and food challenges.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 5 Sep. 2018
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The doctor might also want to do blood or skin tests, and maybe a food challenge in-office, before making a diagnosis.
—Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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Tuberculosis can be detected by a blood test or a skin test.
—Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
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That’s the prescription from La Jolla’s DermTech, which offers skin tests for melanoma using a special adhesive tape.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
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The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday.
—NBC News, 10 Apr. 2020
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In people who are unlikely to have a severe penicillin allergy, doctors may streamline the testing process by skipping the skin test and using just the oral dose.
—Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
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But at least a quarter of the world’s population would come up positive for latent tuberculosis on a blood or skin test.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
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The gold standard for determining a true allergy is for the medical professional to do a penicillin skin test.
—Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
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For the peanut skin test product that was in the FDA's initial recall, federal data tallies 90 cases of false negative results, 17 reports of serious cases and no deaths.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
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Children who had animals had fewer positive skin tests to indoor allergens—like pet and dust-mite allergens—and also to outdoor allergens such as ragweed and grass.
—Bill Strickland, Parents, 9 Aug. 2023
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According to an email to staff Friday, an inmate at the medium-security facility has been placed in a negative pressure room after returning a positive skin test and an X-ray that indicated an active case of tuberculosis.
—Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
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Allergy testing: Identifying specific allergens through blood tests or intradermal skin tests helps pinpoint triggers and develop an effective treatment plan.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2023
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