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Indoor Social Networks in a South African Township: Potential Contribution of Location to Tuberculosis Transmission
BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that in South Africa, with a generalized tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, TB infection is predominantly acquired indoors and transmission potential is determined by the number and duration of social contacts made in locations that are conducive to TB transmission. We therefore...
Autores principales: | Wood, Robin, Racow, Kimberly, Bekker, Linda-Gail, Morrow, Carl, Middelkoop, Keren, Mark, Daniella, Lawn, Stephen D. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22768066 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039246 |
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