Tuberculosis among health care workers during three recent decades
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Tuberculosis among health care workers during three recent decades.
Some studies have found that health care workers have an increased risk of tuberculosis, whereas other studies have reported the opposite. This study examined data of Finnish health care workers (HCWs) for the incidence of tuberculosis disease. Cases of occupational tuberculosis in Finland were analysed over a period of 30 yrs (1966-1995). Control subjects were all other incident tuberculosis c...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3003.2000.15b14.x