Tuberculin positivity and patient contact in healthcare workers in the urban United States.
We performed tuberculin and anergy testing in 91 healthy volunteer employees from the patient transport and housekeeping units at an urban tertiary-care hospital, stratifying results by the risk factor of patient contact. Tuberculin positivity was highly prevalent in this group; patient contact was not a predictor of tuberculosis infection risk, and anergy was rare.
Rattner
S L
SL
Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107-5083, USA.
Fleischer
J A
JA
Davidson
B L
BL
D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015143:Philadelphia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014504:Urban Health