| Literature DB >> 26777287 |
Yutaka Ito1, Miki Nagao2, Yoshitsugu Iinuma3, Yasufumi Matsumura2, Masaki Yamamoto2, Shunji Takakura2, Junko Igawa4, Hiroe Yamanaka4, Akiko Hashimoto4, Toyohiro Hirai5, Akio Niimi6, Satoshi Ichiyama2, Michiaki Mishima5.
Abstract
We conducted hospital-based contact investigations of 55 serial sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients and 771 health care workers (HCWs) from 2006-2013. HCWs who made contact with TB patients in the absence of appropriate airborne precautions were evaluated using interferon gamma release assays to identify TB infection. Twenty-nine HCWs (3.8%) were newly diagnosed with TB infection. The 10 TB patients responsible for transmission had a duration of contact of >7 days by multivariate analysis.Entities:
Keywords: Tuberculosis; health care workers; hospital transmission; interferon gamma release assay; risk factor
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Year: 2016 PMID： 26777287 DOI： 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.11.022
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Infect Control ISSN： 0196-6553 Impact factor: 2.918