Pseudo-outbreak of Tuberculosis in an Acute-Care General Hospital: Epidemiology and Clinical Implications

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 345-347

  Cronin, Wendy ^a   Rodriguez, Evelyn ^b   Valway, Sarah ^b   Bur, Sarah ^b   Hooper, Nancy ^b   Smithwick, Ronald ^b   Ray Butler, W ^b   Dwyer, Diane ^b  

^a Division of Tuberculosis Control   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032059405     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141377     Document Type: Article

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