Issues in the Management of Contacts of Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Efficacy of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention of Tuberculosis

1994 • 1,875 citations

Tuberculosis in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

1999 • 1,483 citations

The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in San Francisco -- A Population-Based Study Using Conventional and Molecular Methods

1994 • 1,141 citations

An Outbreak of Tuberculosis with Accelerated Progression among Persons Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

1992 • 1,015 citations

The Emergence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in New York City

1993 • 952 citations

An Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis among Hospitalized Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1992 • 909 citations

Tuberculosis in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

1991 • 849 citations

Transmission of Tuberculosis in New York City -- An Analysis by DNA Fingerprinting and Conventional Epidemiologic Methods

1994 • 825 citations

ON AIR-BORNE INFECTION*

1934 • 586 citations

Hospital Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

1992 • 473 citations

Insertion element IS986 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a useful tool for diagnosis and epidemiology of tuberculosis

1990 • 419 citations

Transmission of Multidrug-ResistantMycobacterium tuberculosisduring a Long Airplane Flight

1996 • 363 citations

Contacts of cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis.

1975 • 336 citations

Infectiousness of air from a tuberculosis ward. Ultraviolet irradiation of infected air: comparative infectiousness of different patients.

1962 • 313 citations

Transmission of tubercle bacilli: The effects of chemotherapy

1976 • 305 citations

Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis in a Hospital Unit for HIV-lnfected Patients

1992 • 259 citations

Airborne Infection: Theoretical Limits of Protection Achievable by Building Ventilation

1991 • 258 citations

Effect of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccination on Tuberculin Reactivity

1992 • 237 citations

Infectivity of pulmonary tuberculosis in relation to sputum status.

1954 • 213 citations

Recent studies in the epidemiology of tuberculosis, based on the risk of being infected with tubercle bacilli.

1976 • 206 citations

Clearing the Air: The Theory and Application of Ultraviolet Air Disinfection

1989 • 203 citations

Molecular approach to identifying route of transmission of tuberculosis in the community

1993 • 192 citations

HIV Infection in Patients with Tuberculosis in Kinshasa, Zaire

1989 • 174 citations

Nosocomial Tuberculosis^1,2

1982 • 171 citations

Enumeration of Tubercle Bacilli in Sputum of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis

1973 • 167 citations

Infection and disease among contacts of tuberculosis cases with drug-resistant and drug-susceptible bacilli.

1985 • 159 citations

Cough frequency and infectivity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

1969 • 151 citations

Tuberculosis case-finding and chemotherapy: Questions and answers

1979 • 150 citations

Comparison of sputum induction with fiber-optic bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

1995 • 144 citations

Quantitative Studies of Mycobacterial Populations in Sputum and Saliva1, 2

2015 • 135 citations

The Booster Effect in Two-Step Tuberculin Testing among Young Adults in Montreal

1994 • 135 citations

Tuberculosis Epidemic among Hospital Personnel

1989 • 133 citations

Results of contact examination in Rotterdam, 1967-1969.

1975 • 110 citations

Diagnostic Value of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis

1988 • 105 citations

Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

1979 • 102 citations

THE CHALLENGE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN DECLINE. A STUDY BASED ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TUBERCULOSIS IN ONTARIO, CANADA.

1964 • 101 citations

Experimental and epidemiologic basis for the interpretation of tuberculin sensitivity

1959 • 98 citations

Tuberculosis Epidemic among Hospital Personnel

1989 • 81 citations

Tuberculosis case-finding and chemotherapy. questions and answers

1979 • 77 citations

Management of Health Care Workers after Inadvertent Exposure to Tuberculosis: A Guide for the Use of Preventive Therapy

1995 • 74 citations

Factors Associated with Tuberculin Reactivity among the Foreign-born in Montreal

1992 • 73 citations

Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a health clinic.

1991 • 72 citations

Establishing priority during investigation of tuberculosis contacts.

1979 • 60 citations

Six years' experience with the discontinuation of BCG vaccination

1993 • 57 citations

The Byrd Study

1968 • 56 citations

The value of contact procedures for tuberculosis in Edinburgh

1984 • 54 citations

Incidence of tuberculosis in young adult women, with special reference to employment

1938 • 46 citations

The Use of Hypertonic Aerosol in Production of Sputum for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

1961 • 39 citations

Infectiousness of a University Student with Laryngeal and Cavitary Tuberculosis

1995 • 35 citations

Tuberculin test conversion during repeated skin testing, associated with sensitivity to nontuberculous mycobacteria.

1979 • 34 citations

Early diagnosis of tuberculosis by fibreoptic bronchoscopy

1992 • 32 citations

Four-Stage Tuberculin Testing in Elderly Subjects Induces Age-Dependent Progressive Boosting

1992 • 32 citations

The Relative Efficacy of Spontaneous Sputa, Aerosol-Induced Sputa, and Gastric Aspirates in the Bacteriologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

1966 • 31 citations

Modern Practice in Tuberculosis

1951 • 29 citations

The influence of the number of bacilli on the development of tuberculous disease in children.

1960 • 26 citations

A comparison of cultures of induced sputum and gastric washings in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

1967 • 22 citations

Tuberculosis in nurses; clinical observations on its pathogenesis as seen in a 15 year follow-up of 745 nurses.

1949 • 20 citations

THE EFFICACY OF SPUTUM SPECIMENS OBTAINED BY NEBULIZATION VERSUS GASTRIC ASPIRATES IN THE BACTERIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

1963 • 20 citations

Studies of lung volumes and physical working capacity during pneumothorax treatment.

1960 • 16 citations

Diagnostic role of fibreoptic bronchoscopy in tuberculosis in the presence of typical x-ray pictures and adequate sputum

1991 • 15 citations

Tuberculin Sensitivity and Tuberculosis in Nursing and Medical Students

1961 • 13 citations

TUBERCLE BACILLI IN THE GASTRIC CONTENTS—AN IMPORTANT DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC FINDING

1937 • 7 citations

STOMACH LAVAGE IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND CONTROL OF TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

1940 • 6 citations

Gastric Lavage in Adults with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

1941 • 5 citations