Prevalence of abnormal radiological findings in health care workers with latent tuberculosis infection and correlations with T cell immune response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Joshi, Rajnish ^a,b   Patil, Samir ^c   Kalantri, Shriprakash ^b   Schwartzman, Kevin ^d,e   Menzies, Dick ^d,e   Pai, Madhukar ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c P D HINDUJA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 40749159194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000805     Document Type: Article

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