Tuberculosis among health care workers;Tuberculosis en trabajadores de la salud

Medicina

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-30

  Gonzalez, Claudio ^a   Araujo, Gloria ^a   Agoglia, Rosanna ^a   Hernandez, Silvana ^a   Seguel, Isabel ^a   Saenz, Cesar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Infection; Risk; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SCREENING; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77951266037     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: 16699106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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