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Laboratory Investigation of a Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis at a District General Hospital

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Nosocomial outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is rarely documented and the transmission is usually difficult to confirm because of the long incubation period of the mycobacterial infection. In this report, we demonstrated the use of molecular genotyping methods together with contact t...

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Autores principales: Huang, Wei-Lun, Jou, Ruwen, Yeh, Pen-Fang, Huang, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Formosan Medical Association & Elsevier. Published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17660141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0929-6646(07)60002-3
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author Huang, Wei-Lun
Jou, Ruwen
Yeh, Pen-Fang
Huang, Angela
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Yeh, Pen-Fang
Huang, Angela
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description BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Nosocomial outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is rarely documented and the transmission is usually difficult to confirm because of the long incubation period of the mycobacterial infection. In this report, we demonstrated the use of molecular genotyping methods together with contact tracing to identify the source case, the causative outbreak strain and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and for the definite confirmation of a suspected outbreak. METHODS: M. tuberculosis strains were genotyped with IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism, spacer oligonucleotide typing and minisatellite interspersed repetitive unit–variable number tandem repeat methods. Clinical data and contact tracing results were collected from medical records and the National TB Registry. RESULTS: In this episode, 66 health care workers (HCWs) were notified as TB cases. A total of 18 M. tuberculosis isolates from HCWs and patients were collected. IS6110 RFLP results revealed that 9 out of 10 HCWs' and 7 out of 8 patients' isolates shared the same genotype. The causative isolate was identified as the Beijing genotype. The index case was a hospitalized respirator-dependent patient. CONCLUSION: Thorough collection along with molecular diagnosis and genotyping of all M. tuberculosis isolates are recommended for the confirmation of any suspected nosocomial TB outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-71356602020-04-08 Laboratory Investigation of a Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis at a District General Hospital Huang, Wei-Lun Jou, Ruwen Yeh, Pen-Fang Huang, Angela J Formos Med Assoc Article BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Nosocomial outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is rarely documented and the transmission is usually difficult to confirm because of the long incubation period of the mycobacterial infection. In this report, we demonstrated the use of molecular genotyping methods together with contact tracing to identify the source case, the causative outbreak strain and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and for the definite confirmation of a suspected outbreak. METHODS: M. tuberculosis strains were genotyped with IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism, spacer oligonucleotide typing and minisatellite interspersed repetitive unit–variable number tandem repeat methods. Clinical data and contact tracing results were collected from medical records and the National TB Registry. RESULTS: In this episode, 66 health care workers (HCWs) were notified as TB cases. A total of 18 M. tuberculosis isolates from HCWs and patients were collected. IS6110 RFLP results revealed that 9 out of 10 HCWs' and 7 out of 8 patients' isolates shared the same genotype. The causative isolate was identified as the Beijing genotype. The index case was a hospitalized respirator-dependent patient. CONCLUSION: Thorough collection along with molecular diagnosis and genotyping of all M. tuberculosis isolates are recommended for the confirmation of any suspected nosocomial TB outbreak. Formosan Medical Association & Elsevier. Published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd 2007 2007-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7135660/ /pubmed/17660141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0929-6646(07)60002-3 Text en Copyright © 2007 Formosan Medical Association & Elsevier. Published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17660141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0929-6646(07)60002-3
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