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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of individuals resistant to M. tuberculosis infection in a longitudinal TB household contact study in Kampala, Uganda
BACKGROUND: Despite sustained exposure to a person with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), some M. tuberculosis (Mtb) exposed individuals maintain a negative tuberculin skin test (TST). Our objective was to characterize these persistently negative TST (PTST-) individuals and compare them to TST converters...
Autores principales: | Ma, Ningning, Zalwango, Sarah, Malone, LaShaunda L, Nsereko, Mary, Wampande, Eddie M, Thiel, Bonnie A, Okware, Brenda, Igo, Robert P, Joloba, Moses L, Mupere, Ezekiel, Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet, Boom, W Henry, Stein, Catherine M |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24970328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-352 |
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