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Contact screening and risk factors for TB among the household contact of children with active TB: a way to find source case and new TB cases

BACKGROUND: Source case investigation, for children with tuberculosis (TB), is conducted to establish the source of infection and to minimize the extent of on-going transmission from infectious persons in the community. The aim of the study was to evaluate the secondary TB cases and to investigate t...

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Autores principales: Laghari, Madeeha, Sulaiman, Syed Azhar Syed, Khan, Amer Hayat, Talpur, Bandeh Ali, Bhatti, Zohra, Memon, Naheed
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/PMC6751870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7597-0