Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

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Abstract
Edlin et al. (June 4 issue)* ascribe the transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis to patient-to-patient spread, on the basis of their epidemiologic study. In their discussion, they note that tuberculin-skin-test conversions occurred in 18 percent of health care workers, and that one worker had resistant tuberculosis whose pattern of restriction-fragmentlength polymorphisms matched that of the case isolates.