A retrospective postal survey of 21 000 medical laboratory workers in England and Wales showed 18 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1971, a five-times increased risk of acquiring the disease compared with the general population. Technicians were at greatest risk, especially if they worked in morbid anatomy departments. Of the 35 cases of hepatitis, the technicians were again the occupation...

The Nonproliferation Review/Summer 2002 Oleg Bukharin is on the Senior Research Staff of the Program on Science and Global Security at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University. James Doyle is a Technical Staff Member in the Nonproliferation and International Secuirty Deivison at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Transparency and Predictability Measures for U.S. and Ru...

Laboratory testing on the confirmation of COVID-19 results is an essential component and without expertise trained laboratory technicians this not possible. The aim study was to review impacts medical staff. literature search done using Medline, Embase, Scopus, Proquest databases, relevant keywords were applied find studies which have been conducted in field Medical Science specifically looking...

OBJECTIVES The tuberculin skin test (TST) and the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test (QFT) are used to identify latent tuberculosis infections (LTBIs). The aim of this study was to determine the agreement between these two tests among health care workers in Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 177 tuberculosis (TB) laboratory staff and 67 non-TB staff. TST indurations of 10 mm or more were...

INTRODUCTION Mortality associated with in-utero HIV infection rises rapidly within weeks after birth. Very early infant diagnosis of HIV (VEID)-testing within 2 weeks of birth-followed by immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy has potential to avert mortality associated with in-utero transmission. However, our understanding of acceptability and feasibility of VEID is limited. METHODS ...