Prevalence of tuberculosis infection in healthcare workers of the public hospital network in Medellín, Colombia: a Bayesian approach

ABSTRACT: A latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prevalence survey was conducted using tuberculin skin test (TST) and Quantiferon test (QFT) in 1218 healthcare workers (HCWs) in Medellín, Colombia. In order to improve the prevalence estimates, a latent class model was built using a Bayesian approach...

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Autores:

Ochoa Acosta, Jesús Ernesto
León Álvarez, Alba Luz
Arbeláez Montoya, María Patricia
Ramírez, I. C
Lopera, C. M.
Bernal, Elissa

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2017

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/38380

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/38380

Palabra clave:

Análisis de Clases Latentes
Latent Class Analysis
Exposición Profesional
Occupational Exposure
Sensibilidad y Especificidad
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tuberculosis
Teorema de Bayes
Bayes Theorem
Colombia - epidemiología
Colombia - epidemiology
Ensayos de Liberación de Interferón gamma
Interferon-gamma Release Tests
Colombia - epidemiology
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000077272
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016273
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012680
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014376
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001499
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003105
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059425

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openAccess

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/