Correction

An Outbreak Involving Extensive Transmission of a Virulent Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

N Engl J Med 1998; 338:1783June 11, 1998

Article

An Outbreak Involving Extensive Transmission of a Virulent Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Original Article, N Engl J Med 1998:338;633 - 639) . On page 633, in the Results paragraph of the Abstract, the sentence that begins on line 8 should have read, “Of the 429 contacts, 311 (72 percent) had positive skin tests, including 81 with documented skin-test conversions,” not “86 with documented skin-test conversions,” as printed.