U.S. Navy and Marine Corps conversion rates for tuberculosis skin testing (1999-2002), with literature review.

We examined tuberculosis skin conversion rates for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel for 1999 to 2002, using information submitted to the Navy Environmental Health Center (Portsmouth, Virginia).

Needle-stick epidemiology in Navy health care workers based on INJTRAK reports (2001-2002).

We provide a descriptive epidemiological analysis of needlestick injuries in Navy medical personnel from the Naval Safety Center database (INJTRAK) for a 1-year period (October 2001 through September 2002). The reports of needle sticks were reviewed on the basis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Injury and Illness Classification system for exposure code 3431 (N = 265). Most of the reported needle sticks occurred in men (60.

Disease nonbattle injury surveillance for commander, Joint Task Force Haiti, 2004.

We analyzed weekly disease nonbattle injury data from the Joint Task Force in Haiti during 2004. Surveillance found 908 initial visits during 17,938 person-weeks, for an overall rate of 5.1% (95% confidence interval, 4.