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Table 2 Characteristics of HCWs with TST conversion at T2

From: Post-exposure rate of tuberculosis infection among health care workers measured with tuberculin skin test conversion after unprotected exposure to patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: 6-year experience in an Italian teaching hospital

Occupation

Year of birth

BCG vaccination status (year vaccination)

Year of contact with TB patient

Ward

Year of hiring

Nurse

1965

Yes (1997)

2006

medicine

1997

Nurse

1972

Yes (1994)

2012

ICU

1997

Nurse

1092

Yes (1990)

2011

ICU

1994

Physician

1978

no

2011

ICU

2011

Nurse

1957

no

2009

medicine

2006

Nurse

1973

Yes (2002)

2008

ICU

2011

Nurse

1964

Yes (1980)

2009

medicine

1990

Physician

1956

Yes (1976)

2009

medicine

1990

Nurse

1955

no

2012

surgery

1982