Transmission of a highly drug-resistant strain (strain W1) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Community outbreak and nosocomial transmission via a contaminated bronchoscope: Community outbreak and nosocomial transmission via a contaminated bronchoscope

JAMA

Volumn 278, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1073-1077

  Agerton, Tracy ^a,b   Valway, Sarah ^b   Gore, Betty ^d   Pozsik, Carol ^d   Plikaytis, Bonnie ^c   Woodley, Charles ^c   Onorato, Ida ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; GLUTARALDEHYDE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN SULFATE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030774748     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.278.13.1073     Document Type: Article

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