Potential Nosocomial Exposure to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis from a Bronchoscope

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 825-830

  Larson, Janet L ^a,b   Lambert, Lauren ^a   Stricof, Rachel L ^c   Driscoll, Jeffrey ^d   McGarry, Michael A ^d   Ridzon, Renée ^a,e  

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

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

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^e BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REVIEW; SPUTUM; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BRONCHOSCOPES; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0344739802     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502144     Document Type: Review

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