NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 31 –
An outbreak affecting 80 individuals resulted from failure to recognize symptoms of fulminate tuberculosis (TB) in an elderly nursing home patient, investigators in Arkansas report.
Routine annual testing at the nursing home in June, 1998, turned up six employees out of 18 whose tuberculin skin test (TST) had converted. To determine the reason for this conversion rate, Dr. Joseph H. Bates, of the Arkansas Department of Health in Little Rock, and associates directed clinical examinations and chest x-rays of all residents and employees with a positive TST.
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