Is the risk of occupational tuberculosis higher for young health care workers?

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 556-562

  Raitio, Matti ^a,c   Helenius, H ^b   Tala, E ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Paimio Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Age; Health care workers; Occupational tuberculosis; Tuberculosis incidence; Tuberculosis risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037497108     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society. Control and prevention of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: Code of Practice 1994. Thorax 1994; 49: 1193-1200.
2. Menzies D, Fanning A, Yuan L, Fitzgerald M. Tuberculosis among health care workers. N Engl J Med 1995: 92-98.
3. Capewell S, Leaker A R, Leitch A G. Pulmonary tuberculosis in health service staff - is it still a problem? Tubercle 1988; 69: 113-118.
4. Loughrey C, Riley M, Varghese G. Tuberculosis among national health service employees. Am Rev Respir Dis 1992; 145 (Suppl): A103.
5. Price L E, Rutala W A, Samsa G P. Tuberculosis in hospital personnel. Infection Control 1987; 8: 97-101.
6. Pleszewski B, FitzGerald J M. Tuberculosis among health care workers in British Columbia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1998; 2: 898-903.
7. Krüüner A, Danilovitsh M, Pehme L, Laisaar T, Hoffner S E, Katila M L. Tuberculosis as an occupational hazard for health care workers in Estonia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001; 5: 170-176.
8. Raitio M, Tala E. Tuberculosis among health care workers during three recent decades. Eur Respir J 2000; 15: 304-307.
9. Ashley M J, Wigle W D. The epidemiology of active tuberculosis in hospital employees in Ontario, 1966-1969. Am Rev Respir Dis 1971; 104: 851-860.
10. Sepkowitz K A. Tuberculosis and the health care worker: a historical perspective. Ann Intern Med 1994; 120: 71-79.
11. Statistical Yearbook of Finland, 1996. Helsinki, Statistics Finland, 1996.
12. McCullagh P, Nelder F A. Generalized linear models. 2nd ed. London, UK: Chapman and Hall, 1989.
13. Geiseler P J, Nelson K E, Crispen R G, Moses V K. Tuberculosis in physicians: a continuing problem. Am Rev Respir Dis 1986;133:773-778.
14. Harrington J M, Shannon H S. Incidence of tuberculosis, hepatitis, brucellosis, and shogellosis in British medical laboratory workers. Br Med J 1976; 1: 759-762.
15. Barret-Connor E. The epidemiology of tuberculosis in physicians. JAMA 1979; 241: 33-38.
16. Meredith S, Watson J M, Citron K M, Cockcroft A, Darbyshire J H. Are healthcare workers in England and Wales at increased risk of tuberculosis? Br Med J 1996; 313: 522-525.
17. Hill A, Burge A, Skinner C. Tuberculosis in National Health Service hospital staff in the West Midlands region of England, 1992-5. Thorax 1997; 52: 994-997.
18. Kantor H S, Poblete R, Pusateri S L. Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis from unsuspected disease. Am J Med 1988; 84: 833-838.
19. Lundgren R, Norrman E, Asberg I. Tuberculosis infection transmitted at autopsy. Tubercle 1987; 68: 147-150.
20. Templeton G L, Illing L A, Young L, Cave M D, Stead W W, Bates J H. The risk for transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the bedside and during autopsy. Ann Intern Med 1995;122:922-925.
21. Malasky C, Jordan T, Potulski F, Reichman L B. Occupational tuberculous infections among pulmonary physicians in training. Am Rev Respir Dis 1990; 142: 505-507.
22. Dorevitch S, Forst L. The occupational hazards of emergency physicians. Am J Emerg Med 2000; 18: 300-311.
23. Härö A S. Tuberculosis in Finland: past - present - future. Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases. The Finnish Antituberculosis Association Yearbook 1988; 18: 52-53.
24. Catanzaro A. Nosocomial tuberculosis. Am Rev Respir Dis 1982;125:559-562.
25. Babus V. Tuberculosis morbidity risk in medical nurses in specialized institutions for the treatment of lung diseases in Zagreb. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1997; 1: 254-258.