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A tuberculosis outbreak in a psychiatric hospital: Kanagawa, Japan, 2012

In January 2012, an inpatient in a ward of a psychiatric hospital with nearly 300 beds in Kanagawa, Japan, was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Here we characterise the TB outbreak cases and identify the population at risk. TB was diagnosed when a person tested bacte...

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Autores principales: Tasaka, M., Koeda, E., Takahashi, C., Ota, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31933448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819002206