An Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis among Hospitalized Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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Authors

Brian R. Edlin · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jerome I. Tokars

Michael H. Grieco

Jack T. Crawford · National Center for Infectious Diseases

Julie Williams

Emilia Mia Sordillo

Kenneth R. Ong

J O Kilburn · National Center for Infectious Diseases

Samuel Dooley · Center for Prevention Services

Abstract

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is readily transmitted among hospitalized patients with AIDS. Physicians must be alert to this danger and must enforce adherence to the measures recommended to prevent nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis.

Topics & Keywords

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 326, Issue 23, pp. 1514-1521

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199206043262302

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