Nosocomial transmission of congenital tuberculosis in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Congenital tuberculosis is uncommon, and nosocomial transmission from a congenitally infected infant to another infant has not been reported in the English literature. We report an investigation of 2 infants with tuberculosis who were cared for in the same neonatal intensive care unit. Isolates from both infants were genetically indistinguishable. Transmission between the 2 infants was likely due to contaminated respiratory equipment.
Crockett
Maryanne
M
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
King
Susan M
SM
Kitai
Ian
I
Jamieson
Frances
F
Richardson
Susan
S
Malloy
Patricia
P
Yaffe
Barbara
B
Reynolds
Donna
D
Hellmann
Jonathan
J
Cutz
Ernest
E
Matlow
Anne
A
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000151:congenital* / Q000635:transmission*