Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection as measured by the QuantiFERON-TB Gold assay and ESAT-6 free IGRA among adolescents in Mwanza, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is vastly higher than that of tuberculosis (TB) disease and this enormous reservoir of individuals with LTBI impacts the global TB control strategy. Adolescents are at greatest risk of TB infection and are thus an ideal target popula...

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Autores principales: Jeremiah, Kidola, Lyimo, Eric, Ritz, Christian, PrayGod, George, Rutkowski, Kathryn Tucker, Korsholm, Karen Smith, Ruhwald, Morten, Tait, Dereck, Grewal, Harleen M. S., Faurholt-Jepsen, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34097715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252808

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34097715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252808

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