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ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2018

False-Positive Tuberculin Skin Test Results Among Low-Risk Healthcare Workers Following Implementation of Fifty-Dose Vials of Purified Protein Derivative.

Jeffrey M Collins, Mary Hunter, Wanda Gordon, Russell R Kempker, Henry M Blumberg, Susan M Ray

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Article in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing Practices in a Large US Integrated Healthcare System.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
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  2. The blueprint for prevention of nosocomial tuberculosis transmission is clear, but why don't we have the will to follow it?Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeffrey M Collins1Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.
Mary Hunter2Grady Health System,Atlanta,Georgia.
Wanda Gordon2Grady Health System,Atlanta,Georgia.
Russell R Kempker1Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.
Henry M Blumberg1Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.
Susan M Ray1Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.
Emory University · USGrady Health System · US

Funding

Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE)UL1TR002378 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Andres J Garcia, Elizabeth O. Ofili · 2017 to 2026
$92.1M
Training a New Generation of VaccinologistsT32AI074492 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Rama Rao Amara, Benjamin A Lopman · 2009 to 2026
$6.4M
Intra Cavitary Pharmacokinetics and Drug Resistance in Pulmonary TuberculosisK23AI103044 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KEMPKER, RUSSELL RYAN · 2013 to 2017
$910k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002378NIAID NIH HHS K23 AI103044NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI074492
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following large declines in tuberculosis transmission the United States, large-scale screening programs targeting low-risk healthcare workers are increasingly a source of false-positive results. We report a large cluster of presumed false-positive tuberculin skin test results in healthcare workers following a change to 50-dose vials of Tubersol tuberculin.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:750-752.

Indexed as

False Positive ReactionsAdultFemaleGeorgiaHealth PersonnelHumansMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisRisk FactorsSensitivity and SpecificityTuberculinTuberculin TestTuberculosisUnited StatesYoung AdultTuberculin

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PMID29606170
PMCPMC6393163
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