Tuberculosis and its control measures for homeless people: implementation of chest x-ray examination for three successive years

Kekkaku

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-25

  Takatorige, Toshio ^a   Ohsaka, Takako ^b   Yamamoto, Shigeru ^c   Nishimori, Taku ^c   Fujikawa, Takeya ^d   Kuroda, Kenji ^e   Iso, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b International Buddhist University   (Japan)

^c NPO Health Support Osaka ^*  (Japan)

^d TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest X ray examination; DOTS; Homeless people; QFT; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MASS CHEST X-RAY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33947526465     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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