Exposure of Dentists to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Ibadan, Nigeria

To determine the prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among dental patients and to assess dentists’ risk for exposure, we conducted a study among dental patients at a large tertiary hospital in Nigeria, a country where tuberculosis is endemic. Ten (13%) of 78 sputum samples obtained we...

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Autores principales: Cadmus, Simeon I., Okoje, Victoria N., Taiwo, Babafemi O., van Soolingen, Dick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100447

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100447

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