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Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added value o...

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Autores principales: Hoang, Thi Thanh Thuy, Nguyen, Viet Nhung, Dinh, Ngoc Sy, Thwaites, Guy, Nguyen, Thu Anh, van Doorn, H. Rogier, Cobelens, Frank, Wertheim, Heiman F. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6394002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30819161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6573-z