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Prisons as Reservoir for Community Transmission of Tuberculosis, Brazil

We conducted a population-based study of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Dourados, Brazil, to assess the relationship between incarceration and TB in the general population. Incarceration was associated with TB in an urban population; 54% of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were related to strains from...

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Autores principales: Sacchi, Flávia P.C., Praça, Renata M., Tatara, Mariana B., Simonsen, Vera, Ferrazoli, Lucilaine, Croda, Mariana G., Suffys, Philip N., Ko, Albert I., Andrews, Jason R., Croda, Julio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25642998
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2103.140896