An outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis in the dormitory of construction labors suspected to have been due to exogenous reinfection

Kekkaku

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 389-394

  Kurasawa, Takuya ^a,d   Sato, Atsuo ^b   Nakatani, Koichi ^c   Ikeda, Takashi ^a   Yoshimatsu, Harukazu ^b   Ikeda, Nobuaki ^c   Inoue, Tetsuro ^d   Kanai, Koichi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Minami Kyoto Hospital   (Japan)

^b TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Kyoto Prefectural Uji Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly group; Outbreak; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Reinfection; Rflp analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PUBLIC HOUSING; RECURRENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0034183526     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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