Job-related risk of latent tuberculosis infection in a homogeneous population of hospital workers in a low incidence area

Occupational risk of Mycobacterium tuber

Occupational risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in hospital workers

✍ A. Yvonne Boudreau; Sherry L. Baron; N. Kyle Steenland; Thomas J. Van Gilder; Jo 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB

We conducted a 4-year (1/89-12/92) retrospective cohort study among employees at a large metropolitan hospital where a nosocomial outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) had occurred. We compared the risk of tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion among employees who worked on wards where pa