Prevalence of tuberculin skin test reactivity among health care workers at a teaching hospital in Trinidad

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-48

  Orrett, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ISONIAZID; TUBERCULIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033993409     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00015-2.x     Document Type: Article

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