Risk of Tuberculin Skin Test Conversion among Health Care Workers: Occupational versus Community Exposure and Infection
| Autor: | Cara L. Biddle, Patricia Parrott, Henry M. Blumberg, Nina M. Larsen, Nancy White, Mark J. Sotir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Adult
Male Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional Tuberculosis Multivariate analysis Tuberculin Cohort Studies Occupational medicine Risk Factors Occupational Exposure Humans Medicine Community Health Services Prospective Studies Risk factor Cross Infection Tuberculin Test business.industry Public health Middle Aged bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Relative risk Female business Cohort study Demography |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 35:796-801 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/342333 |
| Popis: | A prospective observational cohort study to assess rates of and risk factors for tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion among health care workers (HCWs) was conducted at an urban hospital located in a high tuberculosis-incidence area in 1994-1998. All hospital employees undergoing required testing every 6 months were included. A total of 69 (1.2%) of 5773 susceptible employees had a documented TST conversion (overall rate, 0.38 per 100 person-years worked). No significant difference existed in conversion rates among employees with frequent, limited, or no patient contact. HCWs with a TST conversion lived in zip codes with higher tuberculosis case rates (P< or =.05). In multivariate analysis, TST conversion was associated with history of bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination (relative risk [RR], 11.63), annual salary |
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