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Preventive Medicine
Many healthcare workers in New York State do not receive treatment for latent TB
January 17th, 2006
Many healthcare workers in New York State do not receive treatment for latent tuberculosis infection. According to a recent report from the United States, "Nosocomial tuberculosis (TB) transmission has decreased dramatically in New York State since 1992: however, health care workers (HCWs) still compose >3% of TB cases. "Aggregate surveillance data on incident TB cases from 1994 to 2002 were examined for trends among HCWs. Additional information was available for HCW cases from 1998 to 2002, including facility type, tuberculin skin test (TST) result at hire, and treatment of latent TB infection (TLTBI)." "In New York State,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-01-17)
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