"Long-Term Follow-Up of a Nosocomial Outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) Due to M. bovis."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 18th Annual Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology, held June 17-18, 1997, in Cordoba, Spain, or to the 2nd International Symposium on Mycobacteria of Clinical Interest, held June 19-20, 1997, in Cordoba, Spain, "Although several outbreaks of MDRTB have been published, there is sparse information about the long-term follow-up of these outbreaks after its control. We have reported a nosocomial outbreak of MDRTB-M. bovis during 1994 in our hospital. The outbreak caused 100% mortality in the nineteen patients affected (all of them infected with HIV). After control measures were implemented the outbreak could be...

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