Pre-employment screening of latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers using tuberculin skin test and QuantiFERON-TB Gold test at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Summary: Objective: To assess the agreement between the tuberculin skin test (TST) and the QuantiFERON-TB Gold test (QFT-G) as pre-employment screening tests for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among healthcare workers. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 1412 hea...

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Main Authors: Mohamed El-Helaly (Author), Waseem Khan (Author), Aiman El-Saed (Author), Hanan H. Balkhy (Author)
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Published: Elsevier, 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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