Tuberculosis Healthcare Workers: There Goes My Hero

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: David E. Griffith, National Jewish Health; J. Cegielski, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2021-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc.
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa716
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 27
• End Page: 29
• Grant/Funding Information: None declared
• Keywords: Infectious Diseases; World Health Organization; PICO; healthcare worker; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; TRANSMISSION; Microbiology; Science & Technology; tuberculosis; COVID-19; Immunology

Abstract

Case identification, respiratory isolation, personal protective equipment (PPE), and contact investigation are recent additions to the national dialogue as a consequence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. They are, of course, long-term components of the tuberculosis (TB) healthcare workers’ (HCWs) vernacular. There are important differences between COVID-19 infection and TB, but nosocomial transmission to HCWs is a critically important shared characteristic.