In-hospital contact investigation among health care workers after exposure to smear-negative tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) accounts for a considerable proportion of TB transmission, which especially endangers health care workers (HCW). Novel Mycobacterium-tuberculosis-specific interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) may offer the chance to define the burden of TB in HCW...

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Autores principales: Ringshausen, Felix C, Schlösser, Stephan, Nienhaus, Albert, Schablon, Anja, Schultze-Werninghaus, Gerhard, Rohde, Gernot
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6673-4-11

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6673-4-11

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