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A Case of Healthcare-Associated, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Austria: Reconsidering the Value of Cohorting of Patients with Culture-Positive Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alexander Indra ,
Barbara Robl ,
Ingrid Aumüller ,
Eva Magnet ,
Stefan Meusburger  and
Franz Allerberger
Alexander Indra
Affiliation:
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna
Barbara Robl
Affiliation:
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna
Ingrid Aumüller
Affiliation:
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna
Eva Magnet
Affiliation:
Public Health Authority of the Province of Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Stefan Meusburger
Affiliation:
Public Health Authority of the Province of Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Franz Allerberger*
Affiliation:
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna
*
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Spargelfeldstr. 191, A-1220 Vienna, Austria ([email protected])
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Abstract

Cohorting of patients with culture-positive tuberculosis is still widely practiced in Austria, a country where approximately 1% of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates are multidrug resistant. Cohorting of patients with tuberculosis prior to determination of drug susceptibility is unacceptable because M. tuberculosis superinfection can occur.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , April 2007 , pp. 483 - 485
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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