Geographic prediction of tuberculosis clusters in Fukuoka,Japan, using the space-time scan statistic |
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| Authors: | Daisuke Onozuka Akihito Hagihara |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Information Science, Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, 39 Mukaizano, Dazaifu Fukuoka, 818-0135, Japan;(2) Department of Health Services Management and Policy, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Background Tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a global public health epidemic in recent years. Although evaluating local disease clusters leads to effective prevention and control of TB, there are few, if any, spatiotemporal comparisons for epidemic diseases. |
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