Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2016)

Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees, Pune, India

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2203.151673
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 3
pp. 541 – 543

Abstract

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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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