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- Title
Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India.
- Authors
Basavaraj, Anita; Chandanwale, Ajay; Patil, Akhil; Kadam, Dileep; Joshi, Samir; Gupte, Nikhil; Mclntire, Katie; Jain, Divyashri; Dalai, Hamza; Badave, Rohan; DeLuca, Andrea; Gupta, Amita; Bollinger, Robert; Mave, Vidya; McIntire, Katie; Dalal, Hamza
- Abstract
During 2012-2013, at a public hospital in Pune, India, 26 (3.9%) cases of tuberculosis were reported among 662 medical trainees, representing an estimated incidence of 3,279 cases/100,000 person-years. Three of these infections were isoniazid-resistant, 1 was multidrug-resistant, and 1 occurred in a trainee who had fulminant hepatitis after starting treatment for TB.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS risk factors; TUBERCULOSIS research; MULTIDRUG-resistant tuberculosis; WORLD Health Organization; JOHNS Hopkins University
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 3, p541
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2203.151673