title: Infection control for extrapulmonary tuberculosis at a tertiary care cancer center.
abstract: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) can be infectious when diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are performed on infected lesions. We retrospectively describe infection control and evaluate isolation failure rates during the manipulation of active extrapulmonary TB lesions at a comprehensive cancer center over a 5-year period. Among patients with a high suspicion of cancer, extrapulmonary TB was not suspected, and airborne precautions often were not used when manipulating infected lesions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan. Electronic address: i.kawamura@scchr.jp.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawamura
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukahara
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Hanako
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission
keywords: Airborne precautions; Extrapulmonary disease; Isolation failure rate