Prevalence of positive tuberculin skin reactions in a two-step testing program at a tertiary-care center in Eastern North Carolina

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-40

  Swinker, Marian ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033630335     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501695     Document Type: Article

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