TUBERCULOSIS AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS

摘要

India accounts for 1/5~th of the global burden of tuberculosis. Incidence of tuberculosis in India is 1.8 million and out of which 0.8 million are sputum positive. Since health care workers in our country attend a large number of TB patients and many of them require hospitalization, the risk to health care workers is substantially higher. It is of even greater concern if the patients suffer from drug resistant, MDR/XDR-TB.