Tuberculin skin test conversion and primary progressive tuberculosis disease in the first 5 years of life: a birth cohort study from Cape Town, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a leading cause of global childhood mortality. However, the epidemiology and burden of tuberculosis in infancy is not well understood. We aimed to investigate tuberculin skin test conversion and tuberculosis in the Drakenstein Child Health study, a South African birth coh...

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Autores principales: Martinez, Leonardo, le Roux, David M, Barnett, Whitney, Stadler, Attie, Nicol, Mark P, Zar, Heather J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29457055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(17)30149-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29457055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(17)30149-9

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