Tuberculin skin test conversion in hospital employees vaccinated with bacille Calmette-Guérin: Recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection or booster effect?

AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 181-187

  Horowitz, Harold W ^a   Luciano, Barbara B ^a   Kadel, Jean R ^a   Wormser, Gary P ^a  

^a WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BCG VACCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SKIN TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; BCG VACCINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MALE; NEW YORK; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0029037537     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0196-6553(95)90039-X     Document Type: Article

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