MDR-TB cases at Ohio food processing facility investigatedA case report today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes three cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among workers at an Ohio food-processing facility.Investigation into the three cases by the CDC and Ohio Department of Health (ODH) began in February 2019 after whole-genome sequencing revealed that MDR-TB isolates from the three patients were genetically identical.
The index patient was born in one of the 30 countries identified by the World Health Organization as having a high prevalence of MDR-TB.
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