Tuberculosis Risk among Medical Trainees,Pune, India |
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| Authors: | 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 |
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| Affiliation: | Byramjee-Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India (A. Basavaraj, A. Chandanwale, A. Patil, D. Kadam, S. Joshi, H Dalal, R Badave); ;Byramjee-Jeejeebhoy Medical College Clinical Trials Unit, Pune (A. Basavaraj, A. Chandanwale, D. Kadam, S. Joshi, N. Gupte, D. Jain, A. Gupta, R. Bollinger, V. Mave); ;Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (N. Gupte, K. McIntire, A. Gupta, R. Bollinger, V. Mave); ;Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (A. Deluca) |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
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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| Keywords: | tuberculosis and other mycobacteria healthcare workers medical trainees occupational diseases India respiratory infections TB |
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