A school and community outbreak of tuberculosis in Auckland

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1105, 2000, Pages 71-74

  Calder, Lester ^b   Hampton, Lorna ^c   Prentice, David ^c   Reeve, Martin ^c   Vaughan, Anne ^c   Vaughan, Ross ^c   Harrison, Adrian ^c   Voss, Lesley ^c   Morris, Arthur J ^c   Singh, Heather ^c   Koberstein, Vivien ^a  

^a Child and Family Unit   (New Zealand)

^b Auckland Healthcare ^*  (New Zealand)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; INFANT; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCHOOLS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034628847     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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