Missed opportunity for tuberculosis case detection in household contacts in a high burden setting

Contact investigation remains an essential component of tuberculosis (TB) control, yet missed opportunities to trace, medically examine, and treat close contacts of newly diagnosed index TB cases persist. We report a new case of active TB in a 21 year-old woman who was a household contact of a known...

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Autores principales: Sekandi, Juliet Nabbuye, Sempeera, Hassard, List, Justin, Whalen, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077694

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077694

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