Epidemiology
Spoligotyping demonstrates nursing auxiliary TB case unrelated to other TB cases
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 17th, 2006
"Transmission of tuberculosis within hospitals has been increasingly recognized as a hazard for patients and health care workers. A case of pulmonary tuberculosis was detected in September 2003 in a nursing auxiliary working at Avicenne's Hospital.
"This 49 year-old woman was considered infected since April 2003. During this 6 months period, she worked in 23 distinct hospital units and could have contaminated patients and hospital staffs," scientists in France report.
"The epidemiological...
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