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Chest, Vol 83, 879-882, Copyright © 1983 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Tuberculosis screening. Evaluation of a food handlers' program

FN Judson, JA Sbarbaro, JM Tapy and DL Cohn

An evaluation of a tuberculosis screening program for food handlers revealed an unexpectedly low cost ($45) per identifiable candidate for preventive treatment (324 of 6,090 individuals screened). Four new active cases of tuberculosis were identified, and a risk/benefit analysis projected a potential reduction of 19.4 new active cases over the subsequent ten-year period.


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