Changing prevalence of TB infection with increasing age in high TB burden townships in South Africa

SETTING: Crowded townships of Cape Town, South Africa, where HIV prevalence and tuberculosis (TB) notification rates are among the highest in the world. OBJECTIVES: To determine age-specific prevalence rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among HIV-negative individuals and determine the ann...

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Main Authors: Wood, Robin, Liang, Hua, Wu, Hulin, Middelkoop, Keren, Oni, Tollulah, Rangaka, Molebogeng X., Wilkinson, Robert J., Bekker, Linda-Gail, Lawn, Stephen D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837545/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20202297
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