Tuberculosis contact tracing in Boston homeless shelters: estimating exposure risk using electronic bed logs
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University === Public health departments struggle to maintain costs while sensitively targeting contacts of patients with infectious tuberculosis. The homeless populations in shelters have high degrees of contact exposure and are difficult to trace and treat. Once left untreate...
Main Author: | O'Brien, John P. |
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Language: | en_US |
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Boston University
2015
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12546 |
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