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From contact investigation to tuberculosis screening of drug addicts and homeless persons in Rotterdam

Author(s) -

Gèrard de Vries,

Rob AH van Hest

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056

H-Index - 91

eISSN - 1464-360X

pISSN - 1101-1262

DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/cki203

Subject(s) - medicine , contact tracing , addiction , tuberculosis , outreach , drug addict , drug , epidemiology , cluster (spacecraft) , substance abuse , family medicine , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , political science , covid-19 , computer science , law , programming language

In early 2001 there were indications that tuberculosis (TB) was increasingly becoming a problem among drug addicts and homeless persons in Rotterdam, after a periodical screening was discontinued in 1997. A contact investigation around a homeless drug addicted man in Rotterdam with infectious pulmonary TB is described. Contact investigation: A total of 507 drug addicts, homeless persons, and staff of facilities for these risk groups were examined with tuberculin skin testing (TST) and chest radiography. DNA fingerprinting of mycobacteriological cultures through Restricted Fragment Length Polymorphism methodology and molecular epidemiology investigation through cluster analysis were performed.

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