Acceptance of isoniazid preventive therapy by health care workers after tuberculin skin test conversion

JAMA

Volumn 275, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1013-1015

  Camins, Bernard C ^a   Bock, Naomi ^a,b   Watkins, Dan L ^b   Blumberg, Henry M ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MASS SCREENING; MUSCLE CRAMP; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029944568     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.275.13.1013     Document Type: Article

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