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Risk factors for infection and disease in child contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Young children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a high risk of disease progression following infection. This study aimed to determine risk factors for M. tuberculosis infection and disease in children following exposure to adults with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB)...

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Autores principales: Seddon, James A, Hesseling, Anneke C, Godfrey-Faussett, Peter, Fielding, Katherine, Schaaf, H Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-392