Outbreak of tuberculosis among guatemalan immigrants in rural Minnesota, 2008

Public Health Reports

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 726-732

  Lowther, Sara A ^a,b   Miramontes, Roque ^a   Navara, Barbara ^c   Sabuwala, Nadya ^b   Brueshaber, Milayna ^b   Solarz, Sarah ^b   Haddad, Maryam B ^a   Sodt, Deborah ^b   Lynfield, Ruth ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Nobles Rock Community Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ETHNOLOGY; GUATEMALA; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 80155180010     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491112600515     Document Type: Review

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