Annual incidence of latent tuberculosis infection among newly employed nurses at a tertiary care university hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1218-1222

  Lee, Kwangha ^a   Han, Min Kyoung ^a   Choi, Hye Ran ^a   Choi, Chang Min ^a   Oh, Yeon Mok ^a   Lee, Sang Do ^a   Kim, Woo Sung ^a   Kim, Dong Soon ^a   Woo, Jun Hee ^a   Shim, Tae Sun ^a  

^a Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SEROCONVERSION; SOUTH KOREA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; NURSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TUBERCULIN TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449127623     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648082     Document Type: Article

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