ArticleEpidemiology and infection2019
A tuberculosis outbreak at an insecure, temporary housing facility, manga café, Tokyo, Japan, 2016-2017.
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- TB-related technical enquiries received at the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan, during COVID-19.Public health action · 2024Article
- TB-related technical enquiries received in Japan, 2017-2019.Public health action · 2022Article
- Analysis of 605 tuberculosis outbreaks in Japan, 1993-2015: time, place and transmission site.Epidemiology and infection · 2021Article
- "Staying at home" to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: rhetoric or reality? Cross-cutting analysis of nine population groups vulnerable to homelessness in Japan.Tropical medicine and health · 2020Review
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Abstract
In November 2016, a woman in her 30s who stayed at an insecure, temporary housing facility, a manga café in Tokyo, Japan, for a year was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB). Since the café had 31 staff members and provided with accommodation to many people, the local health office initiated a contact investigation. This study aims to characterise the cases found in the outbreak. A TB case was defined as a person tested bacteriologically positive for TB, or was determined to have TB by a physician. A latent TB infection case was defined as a person tested positive by interferon-γ release assay. From January 2016 through November 2017, there were 31 staff members at the manga café, of which, six developed TB disease (one smear-negative, culture-positive and five smear- and culture-negative) in addition to seven LTBI. Another long-term customer was found having sputum smear-positive TB. Variable numbers tandem repeat (VNTR) test revealed that the index patient and the long-term customer had the identical type of VNTR; however, one staff member had a different VNTR. Local health authorities should intensify screening long-term customers of such facilities for TB regularly as well as once a TB outbreak occurs.
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