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Emerg Infect Dis
; 26(5): 1010-1013, 2020 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32310058
ABSTRACT
Contact investigation is one public health measure used to prevent tuberculosis by identifying and treating persons exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Contact investigations are a major tenet of global tuberculosis elimination efforts, but for many reasons remain ineffective. We describe a novel neighbor-based approach to reframe contact investigations.