Tuberculosis outbreak in a grammar school, Serbia, 2016

Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita

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Milena Ilic¹  Sefadil Spahic²  Mirsada Spahic³  Omer Spahic¹  Irena Ilic⁴  Branislav Tiodorovic⁵ 

[1] Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac;Institute of Public Health;Health Centre;Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade;Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis

关键词: tuberculosis;    outbreak;    grammar school;   

DOI  :  10.4415/ANN_19_01_10

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Istituto Superiore di Sanita

【 摘 要 】

Serbia has a low incidence of tuberculosis (TB), with a decreasing trend in the last decade. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe an outbreak of TB infection that occurred in 2016 among students of a grammar school in Novi Pazar. February and November 2016. A 17-year-old girl, third-grade student of a grammar school (the index case), was diagnosed with smear-positive tuberculosis. Contact investigation was conducted, including chest X-ray examinations of over 1100 persons. After the index case was detected, a total of 16 (10 pulmonary and 6 extrapulmonary) tuberculosis patients were newly diagnosed during 2016. Among 11 culture positive cases, MIRU-VNTR method revealed that all Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were identical. Diagnostic delay contributed to the transmission of infection.

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