Lessons learned from a tuberculosis contact investigation associated with a disaster volunteer after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1278-1279

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b   Uchiyama, Bine ^b   Hirakata, Yoichi ^b   Chiba, Tamae ^c   Okuda, Mitsutaka ^c   Kaku, Mitsuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cardiovasc and Resp Center   (Japan)

^c Miyagi Prefectural Government   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EARTHQUAKE; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIEF WORK; SPUTUM; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISASTERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 84878980423     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201212-2150LE     Document Type: Letter

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