title: Screening child playgroup contacts of an adult with smear negative tuberculosis.
abstract: A childcare assistant with smear negative, culture positive tuberculosis worked for four months with 85 children who attended playgroups for 2.5 to 5 hours each week. Eighty-two of the children completed contact tracing procedures. No evidence was found of transmission of disease to any child.
authors.affiliation: Dept Public Health and Clinical Policy, North Essex Health Authority, Witham, Essex. NEHA-CCDC1@compuserve.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Millership
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Irwin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016358:Contact Tracing; D006801:Humans; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000635:transmission*