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The epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis in the Netherlands: still room for prevention

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) among children has long been neglected as a public health concern. However, any child with TB is a sentinel event indicating recent transmission. Vaccination, early case finding and treatment of those latently infected with TB can prevent cases, severe...

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Autores principales: Erkens, Connie GM, de Vries, Gerard, Keizer, Sytze T, Slump, Erika, van den Hof, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-295