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Response to Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis in Homeless Shelters, Georgia, USA, 2015–2017
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 25, Iss 3, Pp 593-595 (2019), Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019.
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Abstract
- In 2008, an outbreak of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis was identified among residents of homeless shelters in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. When initial control efforts involving standard targeted testing failed, a comprehensive approach that involved all providers of services for the homeless successfully interrupted the outbreak.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
isoniazid
Georgia
Response to Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis in Homeless Shelters, Georgia, USA, 2015–2017
Tuberculosis
Epidemiology
030231 tropical medicine
Antitubercular Agents
lcsh:Medicine
History, 21st Century
Disease Outbreaks
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Antibiotic resistance
Environmental health
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
medicine
latent tuberculosis
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
antimicrobial resistance
030212 general & internal medicine
health care economics and organizations
homeless shelters
outbreak
Latent tuberculosis
business.industry
Incidence
Isoniazid
homeless persons
lcsh:R
Dispatch
Outbreak
Fulton County
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Isoniazid resistance
medicine.disease
bacterial infections and mycoses
humanities
tuberculosis and other mycobacteria
TB
Infectious Diseases
Atlanta
Ill-Housed Persons
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a58fca253709a835d6ec442db83d2c40