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Rate of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Detected by Occupational Health Screening of Nurses New to a London Teaching Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Priya Khanna ,
Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy ,
Fiona Warburton ,
Elek Dobson  and
Francis Drobniewski
Priya Khanna
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, London, United Kingdom
Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy
Affiliation:
Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom Barts and the London National Health Service Trust, and the Mycobacterium Reference Unit, Health Promotion Agency, London, United Kingdom
Fiona Warburton
Affiliation:
Joint R&D Office, London, United Kingdom
Elek Dobson
Affiliation:
Occupational Health Service, London, United Kingdom
Francis Drobniewski*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom Barts and the London National Health Service Trust, and the Mycobacterium Reference Unit, Health Promotion Agency, London, United Kingdom
*
National Mycobacterium Reference Unit, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2 Newark St., London, El 2AT, United Kingdom(f.drobniewski@qmul.ac.uk)
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Abstract

The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in a cohort of nurses new to a London hospital was 7.6% (13 of 171), using an interferon-γ(IFN-γ) release assay, and 16.2% (24 of 148), using the tuberculin skin test. On multivariate analysis, birth in a country with tuberculosis prevalence of more than 40 cases per 100,000 population was associated with positive results of both the IFN-γ release assay and the tuberculin skin test.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 6 , June 2009 , pp. 581 - 584
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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