Nutritional Status and Tuberculosis Risk in Adult and Pediatric Household Contacts

BACKGROUND: Studies show obesity decreases risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease. There is limited evidence on whether high body mass index also protects against TB infection; how very high body mass indices influence TB risk; or whether nutritional status predicts this risk in children. We assessed the...

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Udgivet i:PLoS One
Main Authors: Aibana, Omowunmi, Acharya, Xeno, Huang, Chuan-Chin, Becerra, Mercedes C., Galea, Jerome T., Chiang, Silvia S., Contreras, Carmen, Calderon, Roger, Yataco, Rosa, Velásquez, Gustavo E., Tintaya, Karen, Jimenez, Judith, Lecca, Leonid, Murray, Megan B.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5105945/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27835678
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166333
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