Occupational Risk (TB)

Needlestick Prompts Thumb TB in Health Care Worker

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 16th, 1998

A health care worker in Switzerland became ill with tuberculosis of the thumb following a needlestick infected with blood from an HIV positive TB patient.

"To our knowledge, only one (other) case has been described where a syringe used on an HIV positive patient with tuberculosis caused an accidental infection," Daniel Genne and Hans H. Siegrist of Switzerland's Hospital La Chaux-de-Fonds wrote ("Tuberculosis of the Thumb Following a Needlestick Injury," Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 1998;26:210-211).

"In that case, a nurse injured herself with the needle of a catheter removed from an HIV positive patient with pulmonary tuberculosis."

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