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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis among Health Care Workers in High Burden Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Twenty-two high burden countries contributed to the majority of worldwide tuberculosis cases in 2015. Health care workers are at high risk of acquiring tuberculosis through occupational exposure. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the pre...

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Autores principales: Nasreen, Sharifa, Shokoohi, Mostafa, Malvankar-Mehta, Monali S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27711155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164034