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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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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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