Infection control and the burden of tuberculosis infection and disease in health care workers in china: a cross-sectional study
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- 28 October 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (1) , 313
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-313
Abstract
Hospitals with inadequate infection control are risky environments for the emergence and transmission of tuberculosis (TB). We evaluated TB infection control practices, and the prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease and risk factors in health care workers (HCW) in TB centers in Henan province in China.Keywords
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