Probable transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in correctional facility - California
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An inmate may have transmitted multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) to two health care workers and two correctional officers at a California prison. The inmate underwent a chest X-ray and a tuberculin skin test when jailed, The results of both were normal. He developed symptoms of TB almost one year later, and the results of a chest X-ray were abnormal. He did not start treatment for TB until the following month despite these developments. He was diagnosed with MDR-TB after several months of treatment. The infirmary did not have a respiratory isolation cell during part of his illness, and air was circulated out his cell into other parts of the prison. Two health care workers from the infirmary and two correctional officers (one of whom did not work in the infirmary) tested newly positive for exposure to TB. The inmate was also housed in close proximity to several HIV-infected patients in the prison infirmary and was moved among three different prisons from Jul 1990 and Aug 1991, when he still had positive TB tests.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1993
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Exposure of passengers and flight crew to Mycobacterium tuberculosis on commercial aircraft, 1992-1995
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Passengers or flight crew members with infectious tuberculosis (TB) may be unlikely to transmit the disease while aboard commercial aircraft. Between January 1993 and February 1995, health officials investigated six cases in which passengers or flight crew members of a commercial aircraft traveled with infectious TB. Between May and October 1992, a TB-infected flight attendant worked on many domestic and international flights. She transmitted the TB bacterium to other members of the flight crew, but did not infect any passengers. A TB-infected passenger transmitted the disease to other passengers during a flight from Baltimore, Maryland to Honolulu, Hawaii. All infected passengers sat in the same section of the airplane as the TB-infected person. In four other instances, contagious TB-infected airline passengers did not transmit the disease to others during air travel.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1995
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