[Remarkable restricted tuberculosis epidemics in 2001/2002 in two Bavarian regions].
Even if the incidence is further decreasing, tuberculosis must not be underestimated in Germany. In 2001, the public health service revealed four noteworthy molecular-biologically substantiated tuberculosis infection chains in Upper Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. An alcohol-addict frequenting the table reserved for regulars in an inn located in the district of E. was the origin for a small epidemic with seven tuberculosis cases, whereof six were contagious. In the district of D., a manager causes two illnesses at the workplace, and one tuberculosis case as well as two tuberculin conversions after visiting a skiing hut. An external cleaning lady, who had not been examined previously, causes tuberculosis in a three-year old girl in a rehabilitation clinic in the Upper Bavarian district of BT. The cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis, which was not examined for a long period of time in a nursery-school teacher, caused tuberculosis in a three-year-old girl and tuberculin conversion in thirty-four children in the Upper Palatinate region.
Gronauer
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W
Landratsamt Weilheim-Schongau, Gesundheitsamt, Weilheim i. OB. w.gronauer@lra-wm.de
Pregler
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M
Wolf
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P
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000009:adverse effects; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*