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Prevalence and Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Young Children in the Absence of a Gold Standard
INTRODUCTION: For adequate disease control the World Health Organization has proposed the diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) in groups of risk of developing the disease such as children. There is no gold standard (GS) test for the diagnosis of LTBI. The objective of this...
Autores principales: | Perez-Porcuna, Tomas Maria, Pereira-da-Silva, Hélio Doyle, Ascaso, Carlos, Malheiro, Adriana, Bührer, Samira, Martinez-Espinosa, Flor, Abellana, Rosa |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27783642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164181 |
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