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Incidence of Tuberculosis and the Predictive Value of ELISPOT and Mantoux Tests in Gambian Case Contacts

BACKGROUND: Studies of Tuberculosis (TB) case contacts are increasingly being utilised for understanding the relationship between M. tuberculosis and the human host and for assessing new interventions and diagnostic tests. We aimed to identify the incidence rate of new TB cases among TB contacts and...

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Autores principales:	Hill, Philip C., Jackson-Sillah, Dolly J., Fox, Annette, Brookes, Roger H., de Jong, Bouke C., Lugos, Moses D., Adetifa, Ifedayo M., Donkor, Simon A., Aiken, Alex M., Howie, Stephen R., Corrah, Tumani, McAdam, Keith P., Adegbola, Richard A.
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2008
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2147055/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18167540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001379

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