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Previous Volume 338:1783 June 11, 1998 Number 24

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

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