Predictive value of latent tuberculosis tests in Indian healthcare workers: a cohort study
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Predictive value of latent tuberculosis tests in Indian healthcare workers: a cohort study.
Healthcare workers (HCWs) in high tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries are known to have a substantially higher risk of latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease [1], and this has been demonstrated repeatedly in India [2, 3]. Several studies have evaluated interferon-c release assays (IGRAs) in HCWs [4], but no study has reported the predictive value of IGRAs in this population of HCWs at risk fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00014611