When I was at the New Jersey Medical School, we did similar surveillance for the mycobacteriologists and those in the BSL-3 facility who worked with aerosolized TB. We documented one employee with a work-related conversion and the individual was treated for an MDR TB infection.

Lawrence D. Budnick, MD, MPH

Physician, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Professor Emeritus of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School

Rutgers University - EOHSI Clinical Center

170 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854

(o) 848.445.0123

(f) 732.445.0127

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Igra / QFT-Gold

Regards,

LTC Brian J Shiozawa, MD, MPH, MHA, Dipl. ABOM, FACOEM
Occupational and Environmental Medicine

On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM, Swift, Melanie D., M.D., M.P.H. via MCOH-EH

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