The Seasonality of Tuberculosis, Sunlight, Vitamin D, and Household Crowding

Background. Unlike other respiratory infections, tuberculosis diagnoses increase in summer. We performed an ecological analysis of this paradoxical seasonality in a Peruvian shantytown over 4 years. Methods. Tuberculosis symptom-onset and diagnosis dates were recorded for 852 patients. Their tubercu...

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Autores principales: Wingfield, Tom, Schumacher, Samuel G., Sandhu, Gurjinder, Tovar, Marco A., Zevallos, Karine, Baldwin, Matthew R., Montoya, Rosario, Ramos, Eric S., Jongkaewwattana, Chulanee, Lewis, James J., Gilman, Robert H., Friedland, Jon S., Evans, Carlton A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Major Articles and Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24596279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiu121

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