Tuberculosis Cases Linked to NSW Hospital

Tuberculosis Cases Linked to NSW Hospital
Emergency Department Registrar Cassandra Peoples consults with a patient in the Red (COVID-19) Zone of St Vincent's Hospital on June 04, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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A Sydney hospital is working to identify staff, patients and members of the public who may have been exposed to tuberculosis after identifying a small cluster of cases at the facility.

Genomic sequencing recently found that five cases of tuberculosis in Sydney were the same strain and genetically identical, with four of them overlapping at St Vincent’s Hospital.