title: Prevalence of positive tuberculin skin reactions in a two-step testing program at a tertiary-care center in eastern North Carolina.
abstract: The results of performing two-step tuberculin skin testing of healthcare workers at a hospital in eastern North Carolina in 1997 and 1998 were reviewed. Of 1,248 new employees, approximately 500 required two-step testing, which identified only 5 new employees who might have been falsely labeled as converters during the subsequent year's surveillance testing.
authors.affiliation: Office of Prospective Health, East Carolina University, School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Swinker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D015995:Prevalence; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000379:methods*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*