Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that prisons serve as amplifiers of general tuberculosis (TB) epidemics, but there is a paucity of data on this phenomenon and the potential population-level effects of prison-focused interventions. This study (1) quantifies the TB risk for prisoners as they trav...

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Autores principales: Mabud, Tarub S., de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Maria, Ko, Albert I., Basu, Sanjay, Walter, Katharine S., Cohen, Ted, Mathema, Barun, Colijn, Caroline, Lemos, Everton, Croda, Julio, Andrews, Jason R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30677013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30677013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737

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