Integrated Source Case Investigation for Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in the Caregivers and Household Contacts of Hospitalised Young Children Diagnosed with TB in South Africa: An Observational Study

BACKGROUND: Contact tracing, to identify source cases with untreated tuberculosis (TB), is rarely performed in high disease burden settings when the index case is a young child with TB. As TB is strongly associated with HIV infection in these settings, we used source case investigation to determine...

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Autores principales: Lala, Sanjay G., Little, Kristen M., Tshabangu, Nkeko, Moore, David P., Msandiwa, Reginah, van der Watt, Martin, Chaisson, Richard E., Martinson, Neil A.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574562/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26378909
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137518
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