Positive tuberculin test and risk of infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tuberculosis clinic settled in an upright building, in Minas Gerais, Brazil;Reactividad a tuberculina en trabajadores de la salud de un centro de referencia de tuberculosis

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1022-1027

  de Miranda, Silvana Spíndola ^a   de Oliveira, Alice Campos ^a   Santos, Aline Xavier ^a   Prado, Deborah Pereira ^a   Soares, Cláudia Leão ^a   Nery, Rachel Santos ^b   Vieira, Henrique Cunha ^b   Carvalho, Wânia da Silva ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Faculty of Medical Sciences of Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Infectious disease transmission; Latent tuberculosis; Patient to professional; Tuberculin test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871556836     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: 07176163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0034-98872012000800008     Document Type: Article

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