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Tuberculosis screening in household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting

BACKGROUND: Household contacts (HHC) of tuberculosis (TB) patients are at risk of TB infection and disease. The study assessed the utility of “Household contact card and register” for screening of HHC of pulmonary TB (PTB) patients for TB and explored the reasons for HHC not being screened and follo...

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Autores principales:	Velayutham, Banurekha, Jayabal, Lavanya, Watson, Basilea, Jagadeesan, Saraswathy, Angamuthu, Dhanalakshmi, Rebecca, Priscilla, Devaleenal, Bella, Nair, Dina, Tripathy, Srikanth, Selvaraju, Sriram
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2020
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7561118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33057399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240594

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