The role of super-spreading events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission: evidence from contact tracing

BACKGROUND: In current epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB), heterogeneity in infectiousness among TB patients is a challenge, which is not well studied. We aimed to quantify this heterogeneity and the presence of “super-spreading” events that can assist in designing optimal public health interventions...

Descrizione completa

Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Pubblicato in:BMC Infect Dis
Autori principali: Melsew, Yayehirad A., Gambhir, Manoj, Cheng, Allen C., McBryde, Emma S., Denholm, Justin T., Tay, Ee Laine, Trauer, James M.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2019
Soggetti:
Research Article
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417041/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866840
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3870-1
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne! !

Documenti analoghi