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Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Nurses Exposed to Tuberculous Patients Cared for in Rooms without Negative Pressure after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hajime Kanamori ,
Noboru Aso ,
David J. Weber ,
Mari Koide ,
Yuri Sasaki ,
Koichi Tokuda  and
Mitsuo Kaku
Hajime Kanamori*
Affiliation:
Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kurihara, Japan Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Noboru Aso
Affiliation:
Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kurihara, Japan
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Mari Koide
Affiliation:
Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kurihara, Japan
Yuri Sasaki
Affiliation:
Miyagi Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kurihara, Japan
Koichi Tokuda
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Mitsuo Kaku
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
*
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan (kanamori@med.tohoku.ac.jp)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , February 2012 , pp. 204 - 206
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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