Tuberculosis Acquired Outside of Households, Rural Vietnam

Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues...

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Autores principales: Buu, Tran N., van Soolingen, Dick, Huyen, Mai N.T., Lan, Nguyen N.T., Quy, Hoang T., Tiemersma, Edine W., Borgdorff, Martien W., Cobelens, Frank G.J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735935
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100281
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Sumario:Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues against the effectiveness of active TB case finding among household members.

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