A patient tells the nurse he had the bacilli Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination as a child because his mother had tuberculosis. This patient will be screened for tuberculosis by doing which of the following?

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The BCG vaccine can cause a false positive result on skin tests for TB (such as the tine and Mantoux tests), so a chest x-ray is a more reliable screening method for someone with a history of BCG vaccination.

A Patient Tells the Nurse He Had the Bacilli Calmette-Guérin