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Epidemiology of tuberculosis among health care workers
1Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
The author explores factors such as poor environmental, hygienic, and infection controls for the excessive conversion rates found among health care workers in numerous studies. In his in-depth discussion, Dr. Markowitz reviews the role of outbreak investigations, surveillance studies, and current epidemiologic studies in efforts to control the hazard of airborne tuberculosis in the workplace.