Published in

Cambridge University Press, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 6(30), p. 581-584

DOI: 10.1086/597546

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Rate of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Detected by Occupational Health Screening of Nurses New to a London Teaching Hospital

Journal article published in 2009 by Priya Khanna, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy ORCID, Fiona Warburton, Elek Dobson, Francis Drobniewski
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Upload
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Upload
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Policy details
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in a cohort of nurses new to a London hospital was 7.6% (13 of 171), using an interferong γ(IFN-γ) release assay, and 16.2% (24 of 148), using the tuberculin skin test. On multivariate analysis, birth in a country with tuberculosis prevalence of more than 40 cases per 100,000 population was associated with positive results of both the IFN-γ release assay and the tuberculin skin test. © 2009 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.