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1 December 2004

Volume 39, Number 11
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;39:1719–1723
© 2004 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2004/3911-0028$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/425740
BRIEF REPORT

Nosocomial Transmission of Congenital Tuberculosis in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Maryanne Crockett,1

Susan M. King,1

Ian Kitai,1

Frances Jamieson,5

Susan Richardson,4

Patricia Malloy,1

Barbara Yaffe,6

Donna Reynolds,5

Jonathan Hellmann,2

Ernest Cutz,3 and

Anne Matlow,1,4 for the

Outbreak Investigation Team

1Division of Infectious Diseases and 2Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, 3Department of Pathology, and 4Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 5Microbiology, Laboratories Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long‐Term Care, and 6Toronto Public Health, Toronto, and 7Durham Region Health Department, Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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.

Received 1 April 2004; accepted 23 July 2004; electronically published 10 November 2004.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Anne Matlow, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8 ().

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