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Partitioning the risk of tuberculosis transmission in household contact studies

Household contact studies of tuberculosis (TB) are a common way to study disease transmission dynamics. However these studies lack a mechanism for accounting for community transmission, which is known to be significant, particularly in high burden settings. We illustrate a statistical approach for e...

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Autores principales: McIntosh, Avery I., Jenkins, Helen E., Horsburgh, C. Robert, Jones-López, Edward C., Whalen, Christopher C., Gaeddert, Mary, Marques-Rodrigues, Patricia, Ellner, Jerrold J., Dietze, Reynaldo, White, Laura F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31639145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223966