%0 Journal Article
%T A tuberculosis contact investigation involving a large number of contacts tested with interferon-gamma release assay at a nursing school: Kanagawa, Japan, 2012
%A Mami Iwata
%A Masaki Ota
%A Masako Tasaka
%A Takahiro Toyozawa
%A Tamae Shimamura
%J Archive of "Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal : WPSAR".
%D 2018
%R 10.5365/wpsar.2018.9.1.001
%X In May 2012, a teacher of a nursing school with about 300 staff members and students in Japan was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), leading to an investigation involving nearly 300 contacts. We describe the contactsĄŻ closeness to the index TB patient and the likelihood of TB infection and disease
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194223/