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Prevalence and risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts of index cases in two South African provinces: Analysis of baseline data from a cluster-randomised trial
INTRODUCTION: Household contacts of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) often have latent TB infection, and are at risk of progression to disease. We set out to investigate whether index TB case HIV status was linked to a higher probability of latent TB infection among household contact...
Autores principales: | MacPherson, Peter, Lebina, Limakatso, Motsomi, Kegaugetswe, Bosch, Zama, Milovanovic, Minja, Ratsela, Andrew, Lala, Sanjay, Variava, Ebrahim, Golub, Jonathan E., Webb, Emily L., Martinson, Neil A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32182274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230376 |
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