[A survey on the infection rate of tuberculosis among employees of the antituberculosis institutions in Henan province, China].

Autor:	Wang GJ; Antituberculosis Institute, Henan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China., Ma SW, Zhen XA, Meng LT, Xu JY, Zhang YQ, Liu ZF, Li DL
Jazyk:	čínština
Zdroj:	Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi [Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi] 2007 Oct; Vol. 28 (10), pp. 980-3.
Abstrakt:	Objective: To study the situation of tuberculosis (TB) infection among the employees of the anti-TB institutions in Henan. Methods: Cross-sectional study was adopted the employees working in all municipal-level- anti-TB institutions and 40 anti-TB institutions at county-level selected randomly from 109 counties of the province were regarded as surveyed objects. Tuberculin skin test (TST) was used to test the infection with PPD. Results: 2153 employees accepting the TST and the positive rate was 60.6%, of which the positive rate was 66.1% among healthcare workers. Among the employees and healthcare workers, the positive rates of TST adjusted by the stratum weights between municipal-level and county-level institutions were 57.3% and 62.8% respectively with Chi-square test the analysis of multivariate logistic vegression, both positive rate and strong positive rate among healthcare workers, the employees older than 30 years of age and working in municipal-level institutions were significantly higher than those among non-healthcare workers, the employees younger than 30 years old and working in county-level institutions, respectively. There were not significant differences of positive and strong positive rates between employees with and without BCG-history, or between male employees and female employees. Conclusion: Program on TB infection control in anti-TB institutions of Henan were weak and the employees especiolly healthcare workers had a high vocational exposure.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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