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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-16
pubmed:abstractText
The epidemiology of tuberculin reactivity among physicians practicing in regions of moderate tuberculosis prevalence is unknown. We prospectively assessed the epidemiology of tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity among physicians in training in St. Louis between 1992 and 1998. Of 1574 physicians who were tested, 267 (17%) had positive TST results. Older age, birth outside of the United States, prior bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, and practice in the fields of medicine, anesthesiology, or psychiatry were associated with a positive TST result. Among physicians born in the United States, 63 (5.7%) had positive TST results. Among physicians with > or = 2 documented TSTs, 12 had conversion to a positive TST (1.6%; 1.03 conversions per 100 person-years). Physicians in this study had a high rate of tuberculin reactivity, despite a low conversion rate. The relationship between TST conversion and birth outside of the United States and BCG vaccination suggests a booster phenomenon rather than true new TST conversions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1058-4838
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1331-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Tuberculin skin testing of physicians at a midwestern teaching hospital: a 6-year prospective study.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. dwarren@imgate.wustl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article