Assessment of latent tuberculosis infection in psychiatric inpatients: A survey after tuberculosis outbreaks.
CONCLUSION: After TB outbreaks, more than one third of inpatients were QFT-positive for LTBI. Our findings suggest that, beside the infectiousness of source cases, intensity of exposure, and age of contacts, exposure to TB cases in potential genotyping clusters may be predictive for LTBI in this male psychiatric population.
PMID: 26694909 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection - Category: Microbiology Authors: Pan SW, Kou YR, Hu TM, Wu YC, Lee YC, Feng JY, Su WJ Tags: J Microbiol Immunol Infect Source Type: research
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