Tulberculin skin testing and the health care worker: Lessons of the Prophit Survey

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-85

  Sepkowitz, K A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; REINFECTION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOLLOW UP; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RECURRENCE; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029665831     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8479(96)90081-7     Document Type: Article

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