Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission among Elderly Persons, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, 2009–2015 - Seto, Junji; Wada, Takayuki; Suzuki, Yu; Ikeda, Tatsuya; Mizuta, Katsumi; Yamamoto, Taro; Ahiko, Tadayuki (Emerging infectious diseases, 2017)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; contact investigation; contact tracing; Elderly; elderly persons; Female; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Odds Ratio; Risk Factors; Transmission among Elderly Persons, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, 2009–2015; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Tuberculosis - transmission; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; Japan; China; molecular epidemiology; bacteria; variable-number tandem-repeat analysis; contact tracing; Japan; contact investigation; reactivation; latent infection; TB; respiratory infections; epidemiology; elderly persons; transmission; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; VNTR