Occupational Screening for Tuberculosis and the Use of a Borderline Zone for Interpretation of the IGRA in German Healthcare Workers

INTRODUCTION: Healthcare workers (HCWs) in low incidence countries with contact to patients with tuberculosis (TB) are considered a high-risk group for latent TB infection (LTBI) and therefore are routinely screened for LTBI. The German Occupational TB Network data is analyzed in order to estimate t...

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Autores principales: Schablon, Anja, Nienhaus, Albert, Ringshausen, Felix C., Preisser, Alexandra M., Peters, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25541947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115322

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25541947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115322

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