Tuberculosis among the homeless--preventing another outbreak through community action

N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 16;372(16):1483-5. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1501316.

Authors

Vin Gupta¹, Nancy Sugg, Marite Butners, Gillian Allen-White, Alexandra Molnar

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (V.G.); and the Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center (V.G., N.S., A.M.), Butners Consulting Services (M.B.), and Grand Central Bakery (G.A.-W.) - all in Seattle.

PMID: 25875254
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1501316

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Community Participation*
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Humans
Ill-Housed Persons*
Mass Screening / economics
Preventive Health Services / organization & administration*
Tuberculosis / diagnosis
Tuberculosis / epidemiology
Tuberculosis / prevention & control*
United States / epidemiology
Washington