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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.

Indra A, Robl B, Aumüller I, Magnet E, Meusburger S, Allerberger F

Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria. Franz.Allerberger@ages.at.

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.

Published 26 March 2007 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 28(4): 483-5.
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