Booster effect of two-step tuberculin skin testing among hospital employees from areas with a high prevalence of tuberculosis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1117-1120

  Al Mazrou, Abdulrahman M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BOOSTER REACTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PREVALENCE; SKIN INDURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TWO STEP TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS INFECTION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 10844271456     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502355     Document Type: Article

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