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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...
Autores principales: | Laghari, Madeeha, Sulaiman, Syed Azhar Syed, Khan, Amer Hayat, Talpur, Bandeh Ali, Bhatti, Zohra, Memon, Naheed |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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