Annual Risk of Tuberculous Infection Using Different Methods in Communities with a High Prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa

BACKGROUND: The annual risk of tuberculous infection (ARTI) is a key epidemiological indicator of the extent of transmission in a community. Several methods have been suggested to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection using tuberculin skin test data. This paper explores the implications o...

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Autores principales: Shanaube, Kwame, Sismanidis, Charalambos, Ayles, Helen, Beyers, Nulda, Schaap, Ab, Lawrence, Katherine-Anne, Barker, Annie, Godfrey-Faussett, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19915666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007749

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19915666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007749

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