Trend and treatment status of latent tuberculosis infection patients in Japan - Analysis of Japan TB Surveillance data.

Management of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is one of the core elements of End TB Strategy. Japan is one of the few countries in which notification of LTBI is mandatory, yet so far, the data has not been analyzed in detail. We thus conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the trend of LTB...

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Main Authors: Lisa Kawatsu, Kazuhiro Uchimura, Akihiro Ohkado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5665521?pdf=render