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Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Reactions in a Two-Step Testing Program at a Tertiary-Care Center in Eastern North Carolina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marian Swinker
Marian Swinker*
Affiliation:
Office of Prospective Health, East Carolina University, School of Medicine, Brody Lakeside 3, Greenville, NC 27858
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Office of Prospective Health, East Carolina University, School of Medicine, Brody Lakeside 3, Greenville, NC 27858
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Abstract

The results of performing two-step tuberculin skin testing of healthcare workers at a hospital in eastern North Carolina in 1997 and 1998 were reviewed. Of 1,248 new employees, approximately 500 required two-step testing, which identified only 5 new employees who might have been falsely labeled as converters during the subsequent year's surveillance testing.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 39 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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