Related Experiment Videos
Screening child playgroup contacts of an adult with smear negative tuberculosis
S Millership1, C M Roberts, D J Irwin
1Dept Public Health and Clinical Policy, North Essex Health Authority, Witham, Essex. NEHA-CCDC1@compuserve.com
Communicable Disease and Public Health
|December 17, 1998
Abstract:
A childcare assistant with smear negative, culture positive tuberculosis worked for four months with 85 children who attended playgroups for 2.5 to 5 hours each week. Eighty-two of the children completed contact tracing procedures. No evidence was found of transmission of disease to any child.