High Incidence of Hospital Admissions with Multidrug Resistant and Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis among South African Health Care Workers

BACKGROUND: Nosocomial transmission has been described in extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and HIV co-infected patients in South Africa. However, little is known about rates of drug-resistant TB among healthcare workers (HCWs) in TB and HIV endemic settings. OBJECTIVE: To estimate ra...

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Hauptverfasser: O'Donnell, Max R., Jarand, Julie, Loveday, Marian, Padayatchi, Nesri, Zelnick, Jennifer, Werner, Lise, Naidoo, Kasavan, Master, Iqbal, Osburn, Garth, Kvasnovsky, Charlotte, Shean, Karen, Pai, Madhukar, Van der Walt, Martie, Horsburgh, Charles R., Dheda, Keertan
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074259/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20956708
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1059/0003-4819-153-8-201010190-00008
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