1. Hospital Control and Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, Peru
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Field F. Willingham, Tracy L. Schmitz, Macbeth Contreras, Sheela E. Kalangi, Aldo M. Vivar, Luz Caviedes, Eduardo Schiantarelli, Paola Maurtua Neumann, Caryn Bern, and Robert H. Gilman
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hospital contral ,Multi-drug resistant Pulmonary TB ,Mycobacterium tuberculosis ,Peru ,TB ,Tuberculosis ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
We examined the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), rate of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, and characteristics of TB on a female general medicine ward in Peru. Of 250 patients, 40 (16%) were positive by sputum culture and 27 (11%) by smear, and 8 (3%) had MDRTB. Thirteen (33%) of 40 culture-positive patients had not been suspected of having TB on admission. Six (46%) of 13 patients whose TB was unsuspected on admission had MDRTB, compared with 2 (7%) of 27 suspected cases (p=0.009). Five (63%) of 8 MDRTB patients were smear positive and therefore highly infective. In developing countries, hospital control, a simple method of reducing the spread of MDRTB, is neglected.
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- 2001
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