Aggressive Contact Investigation of In-Hospital Exposure to Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Conclusion: An aggressive contact investigation after an unexpected in-hospital diagnosis of active pulmonary TB revealed a high incidence of LTBI among TB-naïve HCWs who had contact with the index patients. PMID: 30804729 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30804729?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - February 27, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: J Korean Med Sci Source Type: research