A tuberculosis outbreak in a renal transplant program.

Abstract

Of the opportunistic infections reported in renal transplant patients, tuberculosis has been infrequently encountered, although its incidence is higher in this group than in the general population.1–3 In our own program, sporadic cases have occurred at the rate of one or two per year. Beginning in October 1990, however, an epidemic of seven cases of tuberculosis was seen with one additional sporadic case. We studied its etiology and epidemiology, and implemented a program of isoniazid prophylaxis to stop the outbreak.