Healthcare worker with "pertussis": Consequences of a false-positive polymerase chain reaction test result

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-307

  Weber, David J ^a   Miller, Melissa B ^b   Brooks, Rebecca H ^b   Brown, Vickie M ^b   Rutala, William A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA HOLMESII; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERTUSSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 77249166570     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650760     Document Type: Article

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