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Burden of New and Recurrent Tuberculosis in a Major South African City Stratified by Age and HIV-Status

AIM: To describe the burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Cape Town by calculating TB incidence rates stratified by age and HIV-status, assessing the contribution of retreatment disease and estimating the cumulative lifetime TB risk in HIV-negative individuals. METHODS: Details of TB cases were abstracted...

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Autores principales: Wood, Robin, Lawn, Stephen D., Caldwell, Judy, Kaplan, Richard, Middelkoop, Keren, Bekker, Linda-Gail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3189963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22016763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025098