Tuberculosis Risk Among Medical Trainees, Pune, India

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Feb 19

PMID 26889712

Citations 9

Authors

Anita Basavaraj

Ajay Chandanwale

Akhil Patil

Dileep Kadam

Samir Joshi

Nikhil Gupte

Katie McIntire

Divyashri Jain

Hamza Dalal

Rohan Badave

Andrea DeLuca

Amita Gupta

Robert Bollinger

Vidya Mave

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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.

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