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Article: Workers often at risk in MDR-TB hot spots.
- Article from:
- TB Monitor
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Workers often at risk in MDR-TB hot spots
Congregate segregation simple but effective
With tuberculosis cases on the rise internationally, experts are looking more closely than ever at the principles and practice of TB infection-measures aimed at protecting health care workers in resource-poor settings. Refining those principles, and making sure theyre applied correctly, is especially important in the 22 countries with a high burden of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).
With MDR-TB, the stakes are much higher, notes Edward Nardell, MD, chief of pulmonary medicine at the Cambridge Hospital and director of TB research for the Harvard-affiliated ...