The role of super-spreading events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission: evidence from contact tracing

BACKGROUND: In current epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB), heterogeneity in infectiousness among TB patients is a challenge, which is not well studied. We aimed to quantify this heterogeneity and the presence of “super-spreading” events that can assist in designing optimal public health interventions...

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Autores principales: Melsew, Yayehirad A., Gambhir, Manoj, Cheng, Allen C., McBryde, Emma S., Denholm, Justin T., Tay, Ee Laine, Trauer, James M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3870-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3870-1

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