[Organization of care for tuberculosis children who had contact with maternal hospital worker suffering from bacillar tuberculosis]

Probl Tuberk. 1998:(5):6-8.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

While contacting a patient with bacillar tuberculosis, neonates and their mother are at risk for the disease, which makes it necessary to make up a programme that involves emergency antituberculosis measures. Among them primary specific drug therapy in all children in contacts, which may prevent tuberculosis in them, is highly effective.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract
  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Ambulatory Care / organization & administration*
  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Health Personnel*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infection Control / organization & administration
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / prevention & control*
  • Moscow / epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Sputum / microbiology*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / prevention & control*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / transmission

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents