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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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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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