Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in healthcare workers at a hospital in Naples, Italy, a low-incidence country

BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at higher risk than the general population of contracting tuberculosis (TB). Moreover, although subjects with latent TB infection (LTBI) are asymptomatic and are not infectious, they may eventually develop active disease. Thus, a fundamental tool of TB contr...

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Autores principales: Lamberti, Monica, Muoio, Mariarosaria, Arnese, Antonio, Borrelli, Sharon, Di Lorenzo, Teresa, Garzillo, Elpidio Maria, Signoriello, Giuseppe, De Pascalis, Stefania, Coppola, Nicola, Nienhaus, Albert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27904647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0141-6

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