Latent tuberculosis infection and associated risk factors among undergraduate healthcare students in Italy: A cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Durando, Paolo ^a   Sotgiu, Giovanni ^b   Spigno, Fabio ^a   Piccinini, Mauro ^c   Mazzarello, Giovanni ^a   Viscoli, Claudio ^a   Copello, Francesco ^a   Poli, Alessandro ^a   Ansaldi, Filippo ^a   Icardi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Healthcare students; Interferon gamma release assay; Latent tuberculosis infection; Risk factors; Tuberculin skin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; ITALY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; ITALY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STUDENTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884407473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-443     Document Type: Article

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