Tuberculosis Collection

Descriptive analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak from a northern Saskatchewan First Nations community - December 2018 to May 2019

2021

Ndubuka, N., Klaver, B., Gupta, S., Lamichhane, S., Brooks, L., Nelson, S., & Akinjobi, G.

Public Health Agency of Canada

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The authors conducted a descriptive analysis of active TB cases and latent TB infection cases linked by contact investigation to the index case for an outbreak in northern Saskatchewan. The aim of the study was to highlight the risk factors assocated with TB transmission in this region and the relevance of a social network contact investigation tool in managing such outbreaks.

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Descriptive analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak from a northern Saskatchewan First Nations community - December 2018 to May 2019.

Ndubuka, N., Klaver, B., Gupta, S., Lamichhane, S., Brooks, L., Nelson, S., & Akinjobi, G. (2021). Descriptive analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak from a northern Saskatchewan First Nations community - December 2018 to May 2019. Canada Communicable Disease Report, 47(11), 479-484.

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