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Current tuberculin reactivity of schoolchildren in the Central African Republic

BACKGROUND: The tuberculin skin test (TST) is the recommended method for screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in many countries. We used this technique to assess bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) status and to estimate the current prevalence and annual rate of latent tuberculosis infectio...

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Autores principales: Minime-Lingoupou, Fanny, Ouambita-Mabo, Rock, Komangoya-Nzozo, Aristide-Désiré, Senekian, Dominique, Bate, Lucien, Yango, François, Nambea, Bachir, Manirakiza, Alexandre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25981707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1829-8