title: In-hospital airborne tuberculous infection from a lesion of calcified pleural thickening during thoracic surgery in a patient with lung cancer.
abstract: A 75-year-old Japanese man underwent thoracic surgery to treat a large lung cancer lesion in the left upper lobe with calcified pleural thickening. Postoperatively, viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected in the margin of the resected thickened calcified pleural lesion. Therefore, an infection control investigation of medical staff who had come in contact with the patient was conducted. Consequently, two of the 14 healthcare professionals who had been in the operating room were diagnosed with latent tuberculous infections. Therefore, strict precautions against airborne infections are required to prevent the in-hospital transmission of M. tuberculosis in such cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akata
authors.forename: Toshinori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawanami
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yatera
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tachiwada
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takenaka
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.forename: Chinatsu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Orihashi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishimoto
authors.forename: Chiharu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yoshii
authors.forename: Fumihiro
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mukae
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D055985:Latent Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission