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Early Detection of Tuberculosis Outbreaks among the San Francisco Homeless: Trade-Offs Between Spatial Resolution and Temporal Scale

BACKGROUND: San Francisco has the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. with recurrent outbreaks among the homeless and marginally housed. It has been shown for syndromic data that when exact geographic coordinates of individual patients are used as the spatial base for outbreak detection, h...

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Autores principales: Higgs, Brandon W., Mohtashemi, Mojdeh, Grinsdale, Jennifer, Kawamura, L. Masae
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18074010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001284