Project Our Infection Prevention and Control Committee reviewed the 2005 CDC guidelines for preventing transmission of M. tuberculosis in health-care facilities. The document states: "the recommended frequency of testing of employees for M. tuberculosis infection varies, depending on the institution's ...
Recently, interferon-gammarelease assays (IGRAs) have been developed as a blood test forLTBI, providing an alternative to traditional tuberculin skintesting (TST). This cross sectional study sought to characterizeagreement between QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT) and TSTresults while ...
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Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash ...