Risk for Tuberculosis Disease Among Contacts with Prior Positive Tuberculin Skin Test: A retrospective Cohort Study, New York City

Prabhu P. Gounder,Tiffany G. Harris,Holly Anger,Lisa Trieu,Jeanne Sullivan Meissner,Betsy L. Cadwell,Elena Shashkina,Shama D. Ahuja

Risk for Tuberculosis Disease Among Contacts with Prior Positive Tuberculin Skin Test: A retrospective Cohort Study, New York City

2015

Prabhu P. Gounder
Tiffany G. Harris
Holly Anger
Lisa Trieu
Jeanne Sullivan Meissner
Betsy L. Cadwell
Elena Shashkina
Shama D. Ahuja

Background Patients with prior positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results may benefit from prophylaxis after repeat exposure to infectious tuberculosis (TB).

Keywords:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Family medicine
Young adult
Demography
Epidemiology
POSITIVE TUBERCULIN
Tuberculosis
Retrospective cohort study
Contact tracing
Tuberculosis Disease
Internal medicine
Medicine
Surgery
skin test

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