{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,12]],"date-time":"2025-11-12T03:28:42Z","timestamp":1762918122205},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","issue":"6","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["int j tuberc lung dis"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p><jats:bold>BACKGROUND:<\/jats:bold> We have updated the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) among healthcare personnel (HCP) in New York City (NYC), USA, during a period of declining TB burden.<jats:bold>METHODS:<\/jats:bold> Using routinely collected Health Department data for NYC TB cases from 2001 to 2014, we conducted\n a retrospective descriptive analysis. <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> values were calculated using Pearson's \u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> or Fisher's exact test for categorical data; Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to compare medians. We used the Cochran-Armitage test for trend and linear regression for trend analyses.<jats:bold>RESULTS:<\/jats:bold>\n HCP accounted for 6% of adults with TB throughout the study period and were more likely than other adults to be female (68% vs. 37%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> \u2264 0.0001), have extrapulmonary-only disease (31% vs. 23%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> \u2264 0.0001), have an isolate with multidrug resistance (4% vs. 2%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> =\n 0.0211), and report a previous history of latent TB infection (LTBI) (51% vs. 23%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> \u2264 0.0001). Compared to non-US-born HCP, US-born HCP were more likely to have HIV infection (18% vs. 8%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.0011) or a genotypically clustered isolate (67% vs. 37%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> \u2264 0.0001)\n and less likely to report history of prior LTBI (43% vs. 54%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.0128).<jats:bold>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:bold> Further research is needed to explore transmission and occupational risk among HCP. New approaches are needed to optimize completion of prophylaxis for HCP with LTBI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5588\/ijtld.19.0584","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,18]],"date-time":"2020-06-18T10:34:35Z","timestamp":1592476475000},"page":"619-625","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Epidemiology of tuberculosis among healthcare personnel in New York City"],"prefix":"10.5588","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"D. C.","family":"Proops","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"J. A.","family":"Knorr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"J. S.","family":"Meissner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"B. N.","family":"Kreiswirth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Research Institute Tuberculosis Center, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S. D.","family":"Ahuja","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, NY"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"3554","container-title":["The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/iuatld\/ijtld\/2020\/00000024\/00000006\/art00013","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,18]],"date-time":"2020-06-18T10:36:44Z","timestamp":1592476604000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/10.5588\/ijtld.19.0584"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"6","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,1]]}},"alternative-id":["1027-3719(20200601)24:6L.619;1-"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5588\/ijtld.19.0584","relation":{},"ISSN":["1027-3719"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1027-3719","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,1]]}}}