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Tuberculin Positivity and Patient Contact in Healthcare Workers in the Urban United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Susan L. Rattner ,
Julie A. Fleischer  and
Bruce L. Davidson
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Abstract

We performed tuberculin and anergy testing in 91 healthy volunteer employees from the patient transport and housekeeping units at an urban tertiary-care hospital, stratifying results by the risk factor of patient contact. Tuberculin positivity was highly prevalent in this group; patient contact was not a predictor of tuberculosis infection risk, and anergy was rare.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 369 - 371
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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