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Contact investigation after a fatal case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in an aircraft, Germany, July 2013

In July 2013, a passenger died of infectious extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) on board of an aircraft after a 3-hour flight from Turkey to Germany. Initial information indicated the patient had moved about the aircraft coughing blood. We thus aimed to contact and inform all persons e...

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Autores principales: an der Heiden, Maria, Hauer, Barbara, Fiebig, Lena, Glaser-Paschke, Gisela, Stemmler, Markus, Simon, Claudia, Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine, Gilsdorf, Andreas, Haas, Walter
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/PMC5388132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28367796
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.12.30493