Are US Hospitals Making Progress in Implementing Guidelines for Prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission?
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- 13 July 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 158 (13) , 1440-1444
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.13.1440
Abstract
DESPITE THE recent decline in the number of individuals with tuberculosis (TB) during 1993-1995, transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to patients and health care workers (HCWs) in health care settings remains a recognized risk.1 Serious morbidity and mortality can occur among patients and HCWs when recommendations in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) TB guidelines are not fully implemented, as documented by hospital outbreaks of both drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of M tuberculosis.2-5This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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