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Turning off the tap: stopping tuberculosis transmission through active case-finding and prompt effective treatment
To halt the global tuberculosis epidemic, transmission must be stopped to prevent new infections and new cases. Identification of individuals with tuberculosis and prompt initiation of effective treatment to rapidly render them non-infectious is crucial to this task. However, in settings of high tub...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd.
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26515675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00322-0 |