Tuberculin skin tests among medical students with prior bacille - Calmette Guérin vaccination in a setting with a high prevalence of Tuberculosis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 705-709

  Khawcharoenporn, Thana ^a   Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Thongphubeth, Kanokporn ^a   Yuekyen, Chananart ^a   Mundy, Linda M ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCAR; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; BCG VACCINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THAILAND; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651091652     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598344     Document Type: Article

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