Rate of latent tuberculosis infection detected by occupational health screening of nurses new to a London teaching hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 581-584

  Khanna, Priya ^a   Nikolayevskyy, Vladyslav ^c   Warburton, Fiona ^b   Dobson, Elek ^a   Drobniewski, Francis ^c  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*

^b Joint RandD Office

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LONDON; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651100783     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597546     Document Type: Article

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