Frequent detection of latent tuberculosis infection among aged underground hard coal miners in the absence of recent tuberculosis exposure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ringshausen, Felix C ^a   Nienhaus, Albert ^b   Schablon, Anja ^b   Costa, José Torres ^c   Knoop, Heiko ^d   Hoffmeyer, Frank ^e   Bünger, Jürgen ^e   Merget, Rolf ^e   Harth, Volker ^b   Schultze Werninghaus, Gerhard ^d   Rohde, Gernot ^f  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COAL WORKER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SILICOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84891621021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082005     Document Type: Article

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