Hospital transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Rosario, Argentina
Medicina (B.Aires)
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56(1): 48-50, ene.-feb. 1996. ilus, tab
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em Inglês
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RESUMO
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has emerged over the last two years at Carrasco Hospital, located in Rosario city. Nosocomial transmission among 7 AIDS patients admitted into the same ward between June and December/94 was supported by temporal clustering of cases, matching drug susceptibility, and identical lS6llO fingerprints. Among 8 non-HIV chronic cases without evidence of reciprocal contact outside the hospital, two additional clusters of 2 and 4 cases, respectively, were identified. The latter was found to be generated by a strain genetically related to the one that infected AIDS patients. lt is hypothesized that an ancestor strain, common to both, might have been brought into the hospital long before the outbreak was first suspected.
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Assunto principal:
Tuberculose Pulmonar
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Infecção Hospitalar
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Tuberculose Resistente a Múltiplos Medicamentos
Limite:
Adulto
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Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Argentina
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Medicina (B.Aires)
Assunto da revista:
Medicina
Ano de publicação:
1996
Tipo de documento:
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