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Is Early Tuberculosis Death Associated with Increased Tuberculosis Transmission?
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis (TB) is now a relatively uncommon disease in high income countries. As such, its diagnosis may be missed or delayed resulting in death before or shortly after the introduction of treatment. Whether early TB death is associated with increased TB transmission is unknown. To...
Autores principales: | Parhar, Anu, Gao, Zhiwei, Heffernan, Courtney, Ahmed, Rabia, Egedahl, Mary Lou, Long, Richard |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25622038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117036 |
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