High Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India.

High Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;22(3)
Authors: Basavaraj A, Chandanwale A, Patil A, Kadam D, Joshi S, Gupte N, McIntire K, Jain D, Dalal H, Badave R, DeLuca A, Gupta A, Bollinger R, Mave V
Abstract
During 2012-2013, at a public hospital in Pune, India, 26 (3.9%) cases of tuberculosis were reported among 662 medical trainees, representing an estimated incidence of 3,279 cases/100,000 person-years. Three of these infections were isoniazid-resistant, 1 was multidrug-resistant, and 1 occurred in a trainee who had fulminant hepatitis after starting treatment for TB.
PMID: 26889712 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - February 19, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Basavaraj A, Chandanwale A, Patil A, Kadam D, Joshi S, Gupte N, McIntire K, Jain D, Dalal H, Badave R, DeLuca A, Gupta A, Bollinger R, Mave V Tags: Emerg Infect Dis Source Type: research