title: Screening of hospital workers for pulmonary tuberculosis in a medical center in Taiwan.
abstract: At a medical center in Taiwan, all workers were examined by chest radiography, to determine the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis. The prevalence of tuberculosis among all hospital workers was 0.12%, that among nurses was 0.35%, and that among externally contracted cleaners was 0.57%. All of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates recovered from 2 nurses and from a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis were the Beijing strain, but the strains had different serotypes.
authors: Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201 Section 2 Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors: Fu-Der
authors: FD
authors: Wang
authors: Chi-Hwar
authors: CH
authors: Chang
authors: Wei-Juin
authors: WJ
authors: Su
authors: Jen-Fu
authors: JF
authors: Shih
authors: Kuang-Ming
authors: KM
authors: Hsiao
authors: Ming-Sheng
authors: MS
authors: Chern
authors: Te-Li
authors: TL
authors: Chen
authors: Ming-Yin
authors: MY
authors: Lin
authors: Yin-Yin
authors: YY
authors: Chen
authors: Chen-Hsen
authors: CH
authors: Lee