To repeat or not to repeat - That is the question!: Serial testing of health-care workers for TB infection

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-11

  Loddenkemper, Robert ^a   Diel, Roland ^b   Nienhaus, Albert ^c  

^a German Central Committee Against Tuberculosis   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN;

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 84863806197     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-0045     Document Type: Editorial

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