False-Positive Tuberculin Skin Test Results Among Low-Risk Healthcare Workers Following Implementation of Fifty-Dose Vials of Purified Protein Derivative. (2nd April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Collins, Jeffrey M.; Hunter, Mary; Gordon, Wanda; Kempker, Russell R.; Blumberg, Henry M.; Ray, Susan M.
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 39:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 750
• Page End: 752
• Publication Date: 2018-04-02
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.59
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract : 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