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Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020
Synopsis

Public Health Response to Tuberculosis Outbreak among Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2017–2018

Kelzee K. TibbettsComments to Author , Randy A. Ottoson, and Dean T. Tsukayama
Author affiliations: Hennepin County Public Health Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (K.K. Tibbetts, R.A. Ottoson, D.T. Tsukayama); Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis (D.T. Tsukayama)

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Chest radiograph findings and TB test results of contacts for case-patients 1–3 of Hennepin County TB case cluster, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2017–2018. At the initial screening, contacts were evaluated by either an interferon-γ release assay or a tuberculin skin test and recommended to undergo chest radiography. Those with suspected active TB were requested to provide sputum samples for further diagnostics (smear test, Mycobacterium tuberculosis culturing, and interferon-γ release assay). Tw

Figure 2. Chest radiograph findings and TB test results of contacts for case-patients 1–3 of Hennepin County TB case cluster, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2017–2018. At the initial screening, contacts were evaluated by either an interferon-γ release assay or a tuberculin skin test and recommended to undergo chest radiography. Those with suspected active TB were requested to provide sputum samples for further diagnostics (smear test, Mycobacterium tuberculosis culturing, and interferon-γ release assay). Two contacts were identified as having active pulmonary disease. TB, tuberculosis.

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