Month: May 1999

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Postsurgical Candida albicans infections associated with an extrinsically contaminated intravenous anesthetic agent

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From 16 to 30 April 1990, four of 364 (1%) postsurgical patients at one hospital developed Candida albicans fungemia or endophthalmitis. The case patients’ surgeries were clustered on two days. To identify risk factors for C. albicans infections, we conducted a cohort study comparing these 4 patients with 67 control patients who had surgeries on the same days but did not acquire C.… Read more

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Increased risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection related to the occupational exposures of health care workers in Chiang Rai, Thailand

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SETTING: Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the occupational risk for tuberculous infection of health care workers (HCWs) and the utility of tuberculin skin test (TST) in a developing country setting.

DESIGN: A cross-sectional TST survey, including a risk assessment questionnaire, of Chiang Rai Hospital HCWs.… Read more

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Trends in compliance with the guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among New Jersey hospitals, 1989 to 1996

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OBJECTIVE: To determine trends in compliance with the guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare facilities among New Jersey hospitals from 1989 through 1996.

DESIGN: A voluntary questionnaire was sent to all 96 New Jersey hospitals in 1992.… Read more