The frequency profile of tuberculin skin testing among employees of a hospital

Kekkaku

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-361

  Mita, Yoshinori ^a   Dobashi, Kunio ^a   Nakazawa, Tsugio ^b   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b School of Health Sciences ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Tuberculin test; Two step tuberculin test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034167262     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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