A Survey of Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Laboratory Healthcare Workers in New York City

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 801-806

  Garber, Elizabeth ^a   San Gabriel, Pablo ^a   Lambert, Lauren ^b   Saiman, Lisa ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY INFECTION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANPOWER; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS; LABORATORY INFECTION; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0345601937     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502140     Document Type: Review

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