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PLoS MEDICINE Rates of Latent Tuberculosis in Health Care Staff in Russia 1* 1,2 2 1 2 Francis Drobniewski , Yanina Balabanova , Elena Zakamova , Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy , Ivan Fedorin 1 Health Protection Agency Mycobacterium Reference Unit and Clinical TB and HIV Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Samara Oblast Tuberculosis Service, Samara, Russian Federation Funding: This study was supported A B S T R A C T by the UK Department for International Development and a European Respiratory Society Fellowship to YB. The funders had Background no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to Russia is one of 22 high burden tuberculosis (TB) countries. Identifying individuals, publish, or preparation of the particularly health care workers (HCWs) with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and manuscript. determining the rate of infection, can assist TB control through chemoprophylaxis and Competing Interests: The authors improving institutional cross-infection strategies. The objective of the study was to estimate have declared that no competing the prevalence and determine the relative risks and risk factors for infection, within a vertically interests exist. Gamma-interferon