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False-Positive Tuberculin Skin Test Results Among Low-Risk Healthcare Workers Following Implementation of Fifty-Dose Vials of Purified Protein Derivative.

Jeffrey M Collins1, Mary Hunter2, Wanda Gordon2, Russell R Kempker1, Henry M Blumberg1, Susan M Ray1.   

Abstract

Following large declines in tuberculosis transmission the United States, large-scale screening programs targeting low-risk healthcare workers are increasingly a source of false-positive results. We report a large cluster of presumed false-positive tuberculin skin test results in healthcare workers following a change to 50-dose vials of Tubersol tuberculin.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:750-752.

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Year:  2018        PMID: 29606170      PMCID: PMC6393163          DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.59

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol        ISSN: 0899-823X            Impact factor:   3.254


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Authors:  J M Collins; H M Blumberg
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