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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
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
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.
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