The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: The relative fitness of organisms causing drug-susceptible (DS) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) is unclear. We compared the risk of TB infection and TB disease in young child household contacts of adults with confirmed DS-TB and MDR-TB. METHODS: In this cross-sectional an...

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Autores principales: Golla, Vera, Snow, Kathryn, Mandalakas, Anna M., Schaaf, Simon H., Du Preez, Karen, Hesseling, Anneke C., Seddon, James A.
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/PMC5576070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2668-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2668-2

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