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Household Contact Screening and Yield of Tuberculosis Cases—A Clinic Based Study in Chennai, South India

BACKGROUND: Contact investigation is an active case finding strategy to increase detection of Tuberculosis (TB) and a key component of TB control programs. The household contacts are at a higher risk of exposure than members of the general population. The information on the value and yield of househ...

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Autores principales:	Nair, Dina, Rajshekhar, Nandita, Klinton, Joel Shyam, Watson, Basilea, Velayutham, Banurekha, Tripathy, Jaya Prasad, Jawahar, Mohideen Shaheed, Swaminathan, Soumya
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2016
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27583974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162090

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