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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis research from V. Barsegian and colleagues discussed
July 1st, 2008
According to recent research from Essen, Germany, "Healthcare workers have an increased risk of tuberculosis infection compared with the general population. There have been few attempts to quantify the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection amongst German healthcare workers, due to inadequacy of the current tuberculin skin test (TST)." "Therefore, it was our aim to investigate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis in this cohort using a tuberculosis-specific ELISpot (T-SPOT (R).TB) test and to compare the performance of this test to that of the TST. Ninety-five healthy participants working in departments of radiology were examined by ELISpot, lymphocyte...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-01)
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