Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mantoux tuberculin skin test

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Original - A technician in the process of placing a Mantoux tuberculin skin test in the recipient’s forearm. The test is used to evaluate people for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection.
Reason
High technical standard and resolution, showing a common test that nearly everyone has to take. Bring attention to TB. A third of the world's population are thought to be infected with M. tuberculosis, and new infections occur at a rate of about one per second.
Articles in which this image appears
Mantoux test, Tuberculosis diagnosis, Tuberculosis
FP category for this image
Sciences/Others due to lack of a Medical specific category (might need to make one?)
Creator
Greg Knobloch, CDC

Promoted File:Mantoux tuberculin skin test.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 21:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]