Risk of tuberculosis among contacts in a low-incidence setting.
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The study population comprised all persons who were screened as contacts of patients with TB between January 2000 and December 2009, at TB clinics within the Sydney West and Sydney South West Area Health Services. Contact screening and management in this jurisdiction is guided by state policy directives. Cases of active TB among the study population were identified by linking a database containing details for all identified contacts and the NSW notifiable diseases database (which includes the TB registry) using a combination of probabilistic and deterministic linkage methods [3].
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The European respiratory journal
دوره 41 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013