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Volume: 22S1 • April 1996

Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Canadian Health Care Facilities and Other Institutional Settings


Appendix A
Background Information on Hospital Risk Assessment

[The following four tables are reprinted, with permission, from the N Engl J Med 1995;332(2).]

 

Table 1
Incidence of Tuberculous Disease in Health Care Workers
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Table 2
Single Cases of Tuberculosis with Transmission to Health Care Workers
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Table 3
Prolonged Hospital Outbreaks of Tuberculosis with Transmission to Health Care Workers
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