Infection control measures effectively prevented nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis to health care workers. Administrative controls appear to be the most important component of a tuberculosis infection control program and should be the first focus of such a program, especially at public hospitals, where resources are most likely to be limited.

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The finding of similar rates of recent infection in nonimmune exposed and unexposed HCWs suggests that transmission to HCWs did not occur, despite failure to place the patients in isolation at the onset of hospitalization.

The finding of similar rates of recent infection in nonimmune exposed and unexposed HCWs suggests that transmission to HCWs did not occur, despite failure to place the patients in isolation at the onset of hospitalization.