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Alternative Title:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Personal Author:
Baker, Brian J. ; Poonja, Shameer ; Mesrobian, Myrna ; Lai, Anna ; Hwang, Steven
Baker, Brian J. ; Poonja, Shameer ; Mesrobian, Myrna ; Lai, Anna ; Hwang, Steven Less -
Corporate Authors:
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.
Description:
In early 2013, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health learned of two patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) who had received care at the same outpatient health care facility (facility A). Facility A is a center for infusions of chemotherapeutic and biologic agents and serves a large number of immunocompromised persons who were potentially exposed to infectious TB. If infected, immunocompromised persons are at elevated risk for progression to TB disease. The two patients (patient A and patient B) both had pulmonary TB, with acid-fast bacilli found on sputum-smear microscopy, and had visited facility A multiple times during their infectious periods. Despite initial concerns that these two cases could be the result of person-to-person transmission at facility A, genotyping of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from these two patients showed that they were infected with unrelated strains.
Subject:
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Disease Outbreaks Genotype Genotyping Techniques Humans Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Notes From The Field Tuberculosis
Source:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014; 63(40):907-908.
Pubmed ID:
25299609
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4584615
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Los Angeles, CA
Collection(s):
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:3b4a4d529567a85ea039dee7bcd77907d8e5ab06ad8f0159ab0969c4fd6da3ce
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/54958/cdc_54958_DS1.pdf
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