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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...
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. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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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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