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Risk of tuberculosis among air passengers estimated by interferon gamma release assay: survey of contact investigations, Japan, 2012 to 2015

Although the World Health Organization recommends contact investigations around air travel-associated sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients, evidence suggests that the information thus obtained may have overestimated the risk of TB infection because it involved some contacts born in count...

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Autores principales: Ota, Masaki, Kato, Seiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28367799
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.12.30492