Immunosurveillance for Mycobacterium tuberculosis of health care personnel in a third level care hospital

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-36

  Larcher, Clara ^a   Frizzera, Eliana ^a   Pretto, P ^a   Lang, Monika ^b   Sonnleitner, Nora ^c   Huemer, H P ^c  

^a Laboratorio di Microbiologia e Virologia   (Italy)

^b Servizio Pneumologico Aziendale   (Italy)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Tuberculosis skin test; Tuberculosis surveillance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; ITALY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STATISTICS; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BCG VACCINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84858957984     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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