Incident Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in household contacts of infectious tuberculosis patients in Brazil

BACKGROUND: In household contact investigations of tuberculosis (TB), a second tuberculin skin test (TST) obtained several weeks after a first negative result consistently identifies individuals that undergo TST conversion. It remains unclear whether this delay in M. tuberculosis infection is relate...

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Autores principales: Jones-López, Edward C., Acuña-Villaorduña, Carlos, Fregona, Geisa, Marques-Rodrigues, Patricia, White, Laura F., Hadad, David Jamil, Dutra-Molina, Lucilia Pereira, Vinhas, Solange, McIntosh, Avery I., Gaeddert, Mary, Ribeiro-Rodrigues, Rodrigo, Salgame, Padmini, Palaci, Moises, Alland, David, Ellner, Jerrold J., Dietze, Reynaldo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2675-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5563014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2675-3

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