[Expert Solution]: you have just been accepted into the nursing…

you have just been accepted into the nursing school at a local mesical center. The program requires that you have a physical , which includes a tb test as well as the hepatitis B rwcombinant vaccine series. The nurse administering the tb skin teat explains that if significant swelling occurs around the injection site, you will probably have to have a chest x-ray to determine if you are infected with Mycobocterium tuberculosis. One and a half days later you wake up and look at your arm, which appears swollen in an area about the size of a quarter around the skin test it is red and tender ro the touch. your’re alarmed ,could you have tb? wy does the reaction take 36-48 hours to show up? If you have a tb infection, why doesnt the whole body or at least the respiratory tract react when the aantigen is injected during the diagnostic test?