Cough-aerosol cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the prediction of outcomes after exposure. A household contact study in Brazil

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures of cough-generated aerosols from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are a quantitative method to measure infectiousness and to predict secondary outcomes in exposed contacts. However, their reproducibility has not been established. OBJECTIVE: To...

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Autores principales: Acuña-Villaorduña, Carlos, Schmidt-Castellani, Luiz Guilherme, Marques-Rodrigues, Patricia, White, Laura F., Hadad, David Jamil, Gaeddert, Mary, Ellner, Jerrold J., Fennelly, Kevin P., Palaci, Moises, Dietze, Reynaldo, Jones-López, Edward C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6205616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30372480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206384

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