Association between Smoking and Latent Tuberculosis in the U.S. Population: An Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

BACKGROUND: Evidence of an association between cigarette smoking and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is based on studies in special populations and/or from high prevalence settings. We sought to evaluate the association between LTBI and smoking in a low prevalence TB setting using population-ba...

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Autores principales: Horne, David J, Campo, Monica, Ortiz, Justin R., Oren, Eyal, Arentz, Matthew, Crothers, Kristina, Narita, Masahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049050

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049050

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