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