"The Connection between Degree of Exposure to Tuberculosis Patients and Development of the Disease."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 38th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, held March 18-21, 1998, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Objective: Our aim was to understand the connection between the degree of exposure to tuberculosis (TB) patients and the development of TB in a rural community of Manitoba. Methods: We analyzed data from the Manitoba Tuberculosis Registry on TB patients and their contacts in the northern community of Gods Lake Narrows from 1992 to 1996. Results: We found 16 TB patients with 238 contacts. We define level of contact (L) as follows: L5 = if the contact is exposed to two TB...

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