A Novel Tool Improves Existing Estimates of Recent Tuberculosis Transmission in Settings of Sparse Data Collection

In any setting, a proportion of incident active tuberculosis (TB) reflects recent transmission (“recent transmission proportion”), whereas the remainder represents reactivation. Appropriately estimating the recent transmission proportion has important implications for local TB control, but existing...

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Autores principales: Kasaie, Parastu, Mathema, Barun, Kelton, W. David, Azman, Andrew S., Pennington, Jeff, Dowdy, David W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144137

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144137

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