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Profiling Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission and the resulting disease burden in the five highest tuberculosis burden countries

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) control efforts are hampered by an imperfect understanding of TB epidemiology. The true age distribution of disease is unknown because a large proportion of individuals with active TB remain undetected. Understanding of transmission is limited by the asymptomatic nature...

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Autores principales: Ragonnet, Romain, Trauer, James M., Geard, Nicholas, Scott, Nick, McBryde, Emma S.
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/PMC6873722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1452-0