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KMID : 0383819650120010087
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
1965 Volume.12 No. 1 p.87 ~ p.90
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THE ATTACK RATES OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CONTACTS OF PATIENTS TREATED AT HOME
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이효근(李孝根)/Hyo Keun Lee
함성숙(咸聖淑)/김형덕(金炯德)/Sung Sook Ham/Hyung Duck Kim
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to determine the attack rate of tuberculosis in contacts
of patients treated on all ambulatory basis. Tuberculosis patients among the contacts
discovered at the time of the index case was diagnosed were excluded from the study.
The attack rates of tuberculosis in 374 contacts of 145 index cases treated at home
were observed for one to three years. During the observation period the tuberculosis
infection rate among contacts under the age of 14 was 34.3 per cent but the morbidty
rate for the entire group was only 1.9 per cent. It is felt that the treatment of active
tuberculosis at home can be undertaken without exposing the contacts to any special
risk contraction the disease.
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