• Skin test to detect sarcoidosis
• Intracutaneous injection of spleen extract of patient with sarcoidosis (Kveim antigen)
• Positive result – granulomas found 4-6 weeks later
• False negative – corticosteroid therapy
• Risk of transmission of diseases like bovine spongiform encephalopathy- hence not done nowadays
• Named after norwegian pathologist Morten Ansgar Kveim

Also called:

• Nickerson Kveim reaction
• Kveim Nickerson skin test

1. DEC (diethylcarbamazine) provocation test
2. Weil Felix Reaction
3. Brill-Zinsser disease
4. Hepatic encepahalopathy