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Tuberculosis contact investigation following the stone-in-the-pond principle in the Netherlands – Did adjusted guidelines improve efficiency?

BACKGROUND: In low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries, contact investigation (CI) requires not missing contacts with TB infection or disease without unnecessarily evaluating non-infected contacts. AIM: We assessed whether updated guidelines for the stone-in-the-pond principle and their promotion...

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Autores principales: van de Berg, Sarah, Erkens, Connie, Mulder, Christiaan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8646980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34763753
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.45.2001828