Aggressive Contact Investigation of In-Hospital Exposure to Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Se Yoon Park Eun Jung Lee Yang-Ki Kim So Young Lee Gil Eun Kim Yeon Su Jeong Jin Hwa Kim Tae Hyong Kim

Published in: Journal of Korean medical science (2019)

An aggressive contact investigation after an unexpected in-hospital diagnosis of active pulmonary TB revealed a high incidence of LTBI among TB-naïve HCWs who had contact with the index patients.

Keyphrases

pulmonary tuberculosis
mycobacterium tuberculosis
end stage renal disease
healthcare
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
pulmonary hypertension
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
acute care
adverse drug
emergency department
drug induced