Survey of tuberculin skin test positivity among Israeli pediatric hospital workers

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 788-791

  Finkelstein, Yaron ^b   Elenberg, Henia ^b   Chodick, Gabriel ^b   Hoffer, Vered ^b   Shalit, Itamar ^b   Garty, Ben Zion ^a  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ADULT; AGED; BCG VACCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SKIN INDURATION; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 4744362725     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502480     Document Type: Review

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