Risk of tuberculin skin test conversion among health care workers: Occupational versus community exposure and infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 796-801

  Larsen, Nina M ^a   Biddle, Cara L ^a   Sotir, Mark J ^a,b   White, Nancy ^b   Parrott, Patricia ^b   Blumberg, Henry M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALARY; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036789260     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342333     Document Type: Article

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