Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Steenland, K
• Levine, A J
• Sieber, K
• Schulte, P
• Aziz, D

Titel

Incidence of tuberculosis infection among New York State prison employees

Ist Teil von

• American journal of public health (1971), 1997-12, Vol.87 (12), p.2012-2014

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: Am Public Health Assoc

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study examined tuberculosis skin test conversions among 24,487 New York State prison employees in 1992. Conversions were analyzed by prison and by job category. The conversion rate was 1.9%. Employees in prisons with low and high numbers of prisoner cases had odds ratios for conversion of 1.67 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.27, 2.19) and 2.20 (95% CI = 1.69, 2.87), respectively, relative to employees in prisons with no prisoner cases. In prisons with cases, guards and medical personnel had odds ratios of 1.64 (95% CI = 1.11, 2.43) and 2.39 (95% CI = 1.40, 4.08), respectively, relative to employees with little prisoner contact. In 1992, approximately one third of new infections among New York State prison employees were due to occupational exposure.