Nosocomial
"Nosocomial Infection with Multidrug-Resistant and -Susceptible Tuberculosis in 91 Health Care Workers."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 18th, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, "Ninety-one health care workers (HCWs) employed in a public hospital were identified with recent tuberculin skin test conversion. Nosocomial transmission of rifampin-isoniazid-streptomycin-ethambutol (RISE)-resistant tuberculosis had occurred during a 10-month period. Rates of conversion differed significantly among physicians and nurses when compared with other personnel and were more frequent among physicians and nurses assigned to the medical service than among nurses and physicians assigned to nonmedical patient care or among other personnel. Among the 91 skin test converters were...
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