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Infection control and tuberculosis in health care workers: an assessment of 28 hospitals in South Africa

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15

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2017

Year

Lyndsay M. O’Hara, Annalee Yassi, Elizabeth Bryce, André Janse van Rensburg, Michelle Engelbrecht, Muzimkhulu Zungu, Letshego E. Nophale, J Mark FitzGerald
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

These findings reaffirm that overall IC and PPE are essential to protect HCWs from acquiring TB. More attention to TB IC is required to protect the health care workforce and to stop the South African TB epidemic.