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False-Positive Tuberculin Skin Test Results Among Low-Risk Healthcare Workers Following Implementation of Fifty-Dose Vials of Purified Protein Derivative

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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 750-752

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.59

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  1. National Institutes of Health [T32 AI074492, K23 AI103044, UL1 TR002378]
  2. Emory Medical Care Foundation

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Following large declines in tuberculosis transmission the United States, large-scale screening programs targeting low-risk healthcare workers are increasingly a source of false-positive results. We report a large cluster of presumed false-positive tuberculin skin test results in healthcare workers following a change to 50-dose vials of Tubersol tuberculin.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:750-752

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