Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India
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Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India.
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.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2203.151673