Prevalence of abnormal radiological findings in health care workers with latent tuberculosis infection and correlations with T cell immune response.

More than half of all health care workers (HCWs) in high TB-incidence, low and middle income countries are latently infected with tuberculosis (TB). We determined radiological lesions in a cohort of HCWs with latent TB infection (LTBI) in India, and determined their association with demographic, occ...

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Main Authors: Rajnish Joshi, Samir Patil, Shriprakash Kalantri, Kevin Schwartzman, Dick Menzies, Madhukar Pai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1950085?pdf=render