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A “Stone in the Pond” Approach to Contact Tracing: Responding to a Large-Scale, Nosocomial Tuberculosis Exposure in a Moderate TB-Burden Setting

  • N. Bagdasarian (a1) (a2) (a3), H. C. Chan (a3), S. Ang (a4), M. S. Isa (a2) (a4), S. M. Chan (a2) (a4) and D. A. Fisher (a1) (a2)...

Abstract

A “stone in the pond” strategy is a practical approach to investigating large-scale nosocomial tuberculosis (TB) exposures. Here, we describe such a risk-stratified approach to contact tracing after a TB exposure that occurred over 5 months in a pediatric inpatient ward in a country with a moderate TB burden.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:1509–1511

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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

Corresponding author

Address correspondence to Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH, 1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 10, Singapore 119228 (natasha.bagdasarian@gmail.com).

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A “Stone in the Pond” Approach to Contact Tracing: Responding to a Large-Scale, Nosocomial Tuberculosis Exposure in a Moderate TB-Burden Setting

  • N. Bagdasarian (a1) (a2) (a3), H. C. Chan (a3), S. Ang (a4), M. S. Isa (a2) (a4), S. M. Chan (a2) (a4) and D. A. Fisher (a1) (a2)...

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