Finding Recent Tuberculous Infection in New Orleans
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 235 (9) , 931-932
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1976.03260350035024
Abstract
We tested infants and preschool-age children from the New Orleans Health Department programs for tuberculosis contact investigation and for tuberculin skin testing. About 7.8% (34 of 438) of the contacts and about 0.78% (107 of 13,797) of those given skin tests were tuberculosis-infected. Both programs, we concluded, detected enough recent tuberculous infection to be worthwhile as screening procedures. (JAMA235:931-932, 1976)Keywords
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