Latent tuberculosis infection in nurses exposed to tuberculous patients cared for in rooms without negative pressure after the 2011 great East Japan earthquake

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-206

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b   Aso, Noboru ^a   Weber, David J ^c   Koide, Mari ^a   Sasaki, Yuri ^a   Tokuda, Koichi ^b   Kaku, Mitsuo ^b  

^a Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARTHQUAKE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; NURSE; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; JAPAN; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NURSES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TUBERCULIN TEST; VENTILATION;

EID: 84855526943     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663716     Document Type: Article

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