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Durations of asymptomatic, symptomatic, and care-seeking phases of tuberculosis disease with a Bayesian analysis of prevalence survey and notification data

BACKGROUND: Ratios of bacteriologically positive tuberculosis (TB) prevalence to notification rates are used to characterise typical durations of TB disease. However, this ignores the clinical spectrum of tuberculosis disease and potentially long infectious periods with minimal or no symptoms prior...

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Autores principales: Ku, Chu-Chang, MacPherson, Peter, Khundi, McEwen, Nzawa Soko, Rebecca H., Feasey, Helena R. A., Nliwasa, Marriott, Horton, Katherine C., Corbett, Elizabeth L., Dodd, Peter J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8579670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34753468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02128-9