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cord-271660-5sfkhg19	Sun, Hsin-Yun	Impact of introducing fluorescent microscopy on hospital tuberculosis control: A before-after study at a high caseload medical center in Taiwan	2020-04-03		.txt	text/plain	3884	192	40	METHODS: We measured the impact of switch to fluorescent microscopy on the smear detection rate of culture-confirmed pulmonary TB, timing of respiratory isolation, and total non-isolated infectious person-days in hospital at a high-caseload medical center (approximately 400 TB cases annually) in Taipei. Hospitalized patients had typical presentations of pulmonary TB if they had: (a) a prolonged cough for >3 weeks; (b) clinical suspicion of pulmonary TB based on chest radiography, such as cavitary pulmonary lesions, upper lobe diseases, or miliary lesions; or (c) already received a confirmed diagnosis of pulmonary TB by a positive sputum culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, positive acid-fast stain (AFS), or positive TB PCR, before the hospitalization. Our previous survey on age/sex-standardised TB incidence ratio of HCWs (using general population as reference)---the excess TB risk that are attributable to nosocomial TB transmission---in Medical Center A showed a drop of this risk, from 3.11 in 2006 to 1.37 in 2012 [23] , and the decrease in time-to-isolation and total non-isolated infectious patient-days was in parallel in the present study.	./cache/cord-271660-5sfkhg19.txt	./txt/cord-271660-5sfkhg19.txt