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A tuberculosis contact investigation involving a large number of contacts tested with interferon-gamma release assay at a nursing school: Kanagawa, Japan, 2012

In May 2012, a teacher of a nursing school with about 300 staff members and students in Japan was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), leading to an investigation involving nearly 300 contacts. We describe the contacts’ closeness to the index TB patient and the likelihoo...

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Autores principales:	Tasaka, Masako, Shimamura, Tamae, Iwata, Mami, Toyozawa, Takahiro, Ota, Masaki
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	World Health Organization 2018
Materias:	Non theme issue
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30377544 http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2018.9.1.001

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