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Tuberculosis infection among homeless persons and caregivers in a high-tuberculosis-prevalence area in Japan: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. The Airin district of Osaka City has a large population of homeless persons and caregivers and is estimated to be the largest TB-endemic area in the intermediate-prevalence country, Japan. However, there have been few studies of homeles...

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Autores principales: Tabuchi, Takahiro, Takatorige, Toshio, Hirayama, Yukio, Nakata, Nobuaki, Harihara, Shigeyoshi, Shimouchi, Akira, Fujita, Koshiro, Yoshida, Hiroko, Tamura, Yoshitaka, Nagai, Takayuki, Matsumoto, Tomoshige, Takashima, Tetsuya, Iso, Hiroyasu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-22