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Occupational Tuberculosis Among Deputy Sheriffs in Connecticut: A Risk Model of Transmission

DOI

15

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0

References

1999

Year

Katharine Cooper-Arnold, Tim Morse, Candace Pettigrew, Michael J. Hodgson, R. Wallace, Jonathan Clive, James Gasecki
Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Abstract

Inadequate ventilation may increase the risk for occupational transmission of tuberculosis. Since lock-ups do not have the time to conduct inmate TB screenings, supplemental engineering controls may be required.