A patient tells the nurse he had the bacilli Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination as a child because his mother had tuberculosis. How should the nurse expect this patient to be screened for tuberculosis?

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Since the patient received the BCG vaccine, which can cause a false positive result on skin tests for tuberculosis, the preferred method of screening for tuberculosis in this patient would be a chest x-ray.

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