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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
Materias:	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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