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Tuberculin Skin Tests Among Medical Students With Prior Bacille-Calmette Guérin Vaccination in a Setting With a High Prevalence of Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thana Khawcharoenporn ,
Anucha Apisarnthanarak ,
Kanokporn Thongphubeth ,
Chananart Yuekyen  and
Linda M. Mundy
Thana Khawcharoenporn
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Kanokporn Thongphubeth
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Chananart Yuekyen
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand12120 ([email protected])
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Abstract

Presence of a bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination scar in medical students was an independent factor associated with initial tuberculin skin test reactions of 10–19 mm (P = .03) and booster effects of 6–9 mm (P = .02). These findings suggest that an initial tuberculin skin test reaction of at least 20 mm or a booster effect of at least 10 mm will reveal tuberculosis among students with prior bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 7 , July 2009 , pp. 705 - 709
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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