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- Title
Tuberculosis transmission in a high school choir.
- Authors
Washko, Rita; Robinson, Errol; Fehrs, Laura J.; Frieden, Thomas R.
- Abstract
Presents a study in which the New York City Department of Health investigated the transmission of tuberculosis within a local high school choir. Indication that the department conducted a tuberculin skin test (TST) among staff members and the student body; How these tests were conducted; How test results enabled the treatment of the tuberculosis epidemic within the school; Results of the study; Conclusions reached on the basis of study's findings.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); UNITED States; NEW York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health; TUBERCULOSIS transmission; CHILDREN'S choirs
- Publication
Journal of School Health, 1998, Vol 68, Issue 6, p256
- ISSN
0022-4391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1746-1561.1998.tb06351.x