Occupational screening of health care workers for tuberculosis infection: Tuberculin skin testing or interferon-γ release assays?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 458-460

  Pai, Madhukar ^a   Banaei, Niaz ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84885100772     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqt105     Document Type: Editorial

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