TB screening in Canadian health care workers using interferon-gamma release assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zwerling, Alice ^a,b   Cojocariu, Mihaela ^b,d   McIntosh, Fiona ^d   Pietrangelo, Filomena ^c   Behr, Marcel A ^a,b,c   Schwartzman, Kevin ^b,c   Benedetti, Andrea ^a,b   Dendukuri, Nandini ^a   Menzies, Dick ^a,b,c   Pai, Madhukar ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CANADA; CANADIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRAVEL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WORK;

ADULT; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84865175965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043014     Document Type: Article

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