An outbreak of tuberculosis in a long-term care unit of a mental hospital

Kekkaku

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 579-586

  Ota, Masaki ^a,c   Isshiki, Manabu ^b  

^a Kitami Health Center   (Japan)

^b Abashiri Health Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active case finding for contacts; Descriptive epidemiology; Mental Hospital; Nosocomial infection; Outbreak; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM CARE UNIT; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 10044298133     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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