Case-Control study of Firefighters with documented positive tuberculin skin test results using Quantiferon-TB testing in comparison with Firefighters with negative tuberculin skin test results

BACKGROUND: Phoenix Firefighters have had abnormally high rates of tuberculin skin test (TBST) results on medical surveillance. The objectives of this study were to evaluate our firefighters using QuantiFERON-TB (QFT), comparing the results to their TBST results. METHODS: Using QFT results obtained...

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Autores principales: Fleming, James L, England, Timothy L, Wernick, Howard B, Reinhart, Steven, Dominguez, John A, Kelley, Patrick L, Gorter, Forrest D, Papst, Victor, LaDuke, Alicia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17177992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6673-1-28

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