作者
John A Jereb, R Monina Klevens, Thomas D Privett, Philip J Smith, Jack T Crawford, Victoria L Sharp, Barry J Davis, William R Jarvis, Samuel W Dooley
发表日期
1995/4/24
期刊
Archives of Internal Medicine
卷号
155
期号
8
页码范围
854-859
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Objective
Investigate reports of tuberculosis in health care workers employed at a hospital with an outbreak of multidrug-resistantMycobacterium tuberculosis.
Design
Case series of tuberculosis in health care workers, January 1, 1989, through May 31, 1992. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis ofM tuberculosisisolates. Longitudinal analysis of cumulative tuberculin skin test surveillance data. Assessment of infection control. The patients consisted of 361 health care workers who had either serial tuberculin skin tests or tuberculosis.
Results
Six health care workers, the largest number linked to one multidrug-resistant tuberculosis outbreak, had disease due toM tuberculosisthat matched the outbreak strain from hospitalized patients. The two who were seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus died, one of tuberculous meningitis and the other of multiple causes …
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