Protecting healthcare workers from tuberculosis in the era of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-3

  Pai, Madhukar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CAPREOMYCIN; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESIDENT; RISK REDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 34248578437     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (20)

1. Corbett EL, Watt CJ, Walker N, Maher D, Williams BG, Raviglione MC, et al. The growing burden of tuberculosis: Global trends and interactions with the HIV epidemic. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163:1009-21.
2. Sepkowitz KA. Tuberculosis and the health care worker: A historical perspective. Ann Intern Med 1994;120: 71-9.
3. Jensen PA, Lambert LA, Iademarco MF, Ridzon R; CDC. Guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in health-care settings, 2005. MMWR Recomm Rep 2005;54:1-141.
4. Menzies D, Fanning A, Yuan L, Fitzgerald M. Tuberculosis among health care workers. N Engl J Med 1995; 332:92-8.
5. Blumberg HM. Tuberculosis infection control. In: Reichman LB, Hershield E (eds). Tuberculosis: A comprehensive international approach. 2nd edn. New York: Marcel-Dekker; 2000:609-44.
6. Joshi R, Reingold AL, Menzies D, Pai M. Tuberculosis among health-care workers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. PLoS Med 2006;3:e494.
7. Pai M, Kalantri S, Aggarwal AN, Menzies D, Blumberg HM. Nosocomial tuberculosis in India. Emerg Infect Dis 2006;12:1311-18.
8. Chadha VK, Kumar P, Jagannatha PS, Vaidyanathan PS, Unnikrishnan KP. Average annual risk of tuberculous infection in India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005;9:116-18.
9. Pai M, Gokhale K, Joshi R, Dogra S, Kalantri S, Mendiratta DK, et al. Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in health care workers in rural India: Comparison of a whole-blood interferon gamma assay with tuberculin skin testing. JAMA 2005;293:2746-55.
10. Pai M, Joshi R, Dogra S, Mendiratta DK, Narang P, Kalantri S, et al. Serial testing of health care workers for tuberculosis using interferon-gamma assay. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006; 174:349-55.
11. Rao KG, Aggarwal AN, Behera D. Tuberculosis among physicians in training. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004;8: 1392-4.
12. Gopinath KG, Siddique S, Kirubakaran H, Shanmugam A, Mathai E, Chandy GM. Tuberculosis among healthcare workers in a tertiary-care hospital in South India. J Hosp Infect 2004;57:339-42.
13. Mathew A, David T, Kuruvilla PJ, Jesudasan M, Thomas K. Risk factors for tuberculosis among health care workers in southern India. In: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), 2005. San Francisco; 2005.
14. Bhanu NV, Banavalikar JN, Kapoor SK, Seth P. Suspected small-scale interpersonal transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in wards of an urban hospital in Delhi, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004; 70:527-31.
15. Raviglione M. XDR-TB: Entering the post-antibiotic era? Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2006;10:1185-7.
16. Singh JA, Upshur R, Padayatchi N. XDR-TB in South Africa: No time for denial or complacency. PLoS Med 2007; 4:e50.
17. World Health Organization. The Global Task Force on XDR-TB: Update (February 2007). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2007. Available at http://www.who.int/tb/xdr/globaltaskforce_update_feb07.pdf.
18. World Health Organization. Guidelines for the prevention of tuberculosis in health care facilities in resource-limited settings. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1999.
19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis infection control in the era of expanding HIV care and treatment. Addendum to WHO Guidelines for the prevention of tuberculosis in health care facilities in resource-limited settings, 1999. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2006. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/ od/gap/docs/program_areas/ TB%20Infection%20Control%20Document%20Final%2010%2025%2006.pdf.
20. Jacob TJ. Protect the health of health care workers. Indian J Med Res 2006;124:488-90.