Geographic prediction of tuberculosis clusters in Fukuoka, Japan, using the space-time scan statistic

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a global public health epidemic in recent years. Although evaluating local disease clusters leads to effective prevention and control of TB, there are few, if any, spatiotemporal comparisons for epi...

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Main Authors: Onozuka Daisuke, Hagihara Akihito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-04-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/7/26