Abstract |
Comprehensive and successful tuberculosis (TB) care and treatment must incorporate effective airborne infection-control strategies. This is particularly and critically important for health care workers and all persons with or at risk of human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) infection. Past and current outbreaks and epidemics of drug-susceptible, multidrug-resistant, and extensively drug-resistant TB have been fueled by HIV infection, with high rates of morbidity and mortality and linked to the absence or limited application of airborne infection-control strategies in both resource-rich and resource-limited settings. Airborne infection-control strategies are available--grouped into administrative, environmental, and personal protection categories--and have been shown to be associated with decreases in nosocomial transmission of TB; their efficacy has not been fully demonstrated, and their implementation is extremely limited, particularly in resource-limited settings. New research and resources are required to fully realize the potential benefits of infection control in the era of TB and HIV epidemics.
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Authors | Sheela V Shenoi, A Roderick Escombe, Gerald Friedland |
Journal | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
(Clin Infect Dis)
Vol. 50 Suppl 3
Pg. S231-7
(May 15 2010)
ISSN: 1537-6591 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 20397953
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Review)
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Topics |
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
(prevention & control)
- Air Microbiology
- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
- Cross Infection
(prevention & control)
- HIV Infections
(complications, drug therapy)
- Humans
- Infection Control
(methods)
- Tuberculosis
(prevention & control, transmission)
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