A published report in Clinical Infectious Disease states:
- Hospitals that had effective Tuberculosis infection control programs had a low incidence of employee conversion
- Study at an Atlanta Hospital involving 5773 Employees from 1994-1998 where studied
- All employees had TB skin tests
- 69 had document skin conversion (1.19%)
- Infection rates did not change with the degree of patient contact
- People who tested positive lived in areas with high incidence of Tuberculosis [13]
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