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Survey of tuberculosis incidents in hospital healthcare workers, England and Wales, 2005

Author(s) -

Cameron Anderson,

Ibrahim Abubakar,

Helen Maguire,

Pam Sonnenberg

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdm042

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , tuberculosis , health care , epidemiology , environmental health , public health , retrospective cohort study , family medicine , medical emergency , nursing , surgery , physics , pathology , optics , economics , economic growth

Tuberculosis (TB) incidence has increased in England and Wales since 1987, with much of the increase in migrants from high TB incidence countries. The National Health Service increasingly depends on healthcare workers (HCWs) trained abroad, often from areas of high TB incidence. A retrospective survey of TB incidents in hospital-based HCWs was carried out to describe their frequency, distribution and characteristics.

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