Investigation of individuals exposed to a healthcare worker with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 May;30(5):502-4. doi: 10.1086/597230.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Contact Tracing*
  • Cross Infection / transmission
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis* / isolation & purification
  • Nurses
  • Occupational Exposure*
  • Sputum / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / transmission*