Prevalence and predictors of tuberculin skin positivity in Hellenic Army recruits

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  German, Vasilios ^a   Giannakos, Georgios ^b   Kopterides, Petros ^c   Falagas, Matthew E ^c,d  

^a Medical Service of the Hellenic Army Supply   (Greece)

^b NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOREIGN WORKER; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; SOLDIER; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33746450100     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-102     Document Type: Article

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