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Booster Effect of Two-Step Tuberculin Skin Testing Among Hospital Employees From Areas With a High Prevalence of Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Abdulrahman M. Al Mazrou
Abdulrahman M. Al Mazrou*
Affiliation:
College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

During a baseline survey of TST, 236 nurses underwent a two-step TST. Overall, 29 (12%) showed boosting. All age groups showed boosting; the rate was 9.7% in those younger than 35 years. Subjects older than 45 years were more likely to have a booster effect than younger individuals (29% vs 10.1%).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , pp. 1117 - 1120
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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