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Primary cutaneous inoculation drug-resistant tuberculosis |
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| Authors: | S A Sahn D J Pierson |
| Affiliation: | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Abstract: | A laboratory technician with a previously negative tuberculin reaction punctured her thumb with a needle containing drug-resistant tuberculous organisms while performing guinea pig inoculation. Diagnosis was established 8 weeks after the initial injury by culture of the excised tissue. Complete resolution of the tuberculous process was accomplished with surgery and chemotherapy. The patient never had a positive tuberculin reaction, and this presumably was due to early chemotherapy. |
| Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Steven A. Sahn Box 2361 University of Colorado Medical Center 4200 East Ninth Avenue Denver Colorado 80220. |
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