Evaluation of the two-step tuberculin skin test in health care workers at an inner-city medical center

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 393-396

  Hallak, Kassem M ^a   Schenk, Maryjean ^a   Neale, Anne Victoria ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032910408     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199905000-00007     Document Type: Article

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