Tuberculosis among Healthcare Workers, United States, 1995–2007

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Lambert, Lauren A. ; Pratt, Robert H. ; Armstrong, Lori R. ; Haddad, Maryam B.
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE
  
  We examined surveillance data to describe the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in the United States during the period 1995–2007.
  
  DESIGN
  
  Cross-sectional descriptive analysis of existing surveillance data.
  
  SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS
  
  TB cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from the 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1995 through 2007.
  
  RESULTS
  
  Of the 200,744 reported TB cases in persons 18 years of age or older, 6,049 (3%) occurred in individuals who were classified as HCWs. HCWs with TB were more likely than other adults with TB to be women (unadjusted odds ratio [95% confidence interval], 4.1 [3.8–4.3]), be foreign born (1.3 [1.3–1.4]), have extrapulmonary TB (1.6 [1.5–1.7]), and complete TB treatment (2.5 [2.3–2.8]).
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  
  Healthcare institutions may benefit from intensifying TB screening of HCWs upon hire, especially persons from countries with a high incidence of TB, and encouraging treatment for latent TB infection among HCWs to prevent progression to TB disease.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Cross-Sectional Studies Emigrants And Immigrants Female Health Personnel HIV Seropositivity Humans Incidence Male Middle Aged Odds Ratio Population Surveillance Sex Distribution Tuberculosis United States Young Adult

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• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 33(11):1126-1132
• Pubmed ID:
  23041811
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5025871
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:65923c193a06bcf93fa41e87a51d07410ef02a11ecc82c706af2d9b653716c0d
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41346/cdc_41346_DS1.pdf
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