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Nosocomial Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Subsequent Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in a Healthcare Worker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Renée Ridzon ,
Thomas Kenyon ,
Roberta Luskin-Hawk ,
Carol Schultz ,
Sarah Valway  and
Ida M. Onorato
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Abstract

A phlebotomist with nosocomially acquired human immunodeficiency virus infection developed tuberculosis 10 months after exposure to multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis during a nosocomial outbreak. Healthcare workers with immunosuppression are at increased risk of tuberculosis if infected and, if exposed, should be considered for preventive therapy regardless of tuberculin skin-test status.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 422 - 423
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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