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High Annual Risk of Tuberculosis Infection among Nursing Students in South India: A Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Nurses in developing countries are frequently exposed to infectious tuberculosis (TB) patients, and have a high prevalence of TB infection. To estimate the incidence of new TB infection, we recruited a cohort of young nursing trainees at the Christian Medical College in Southern India. A...

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Autores principales:	Christopher, Devasahayam J., James, Prince, Daley, Peter, Armstrong, Lois, Isaac, Barney T. J., Thangakunam, Balamugesh, Premkumar, Beulah, Zwerling, Alice, Pai, Madhukar
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2011
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22022565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026199

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