Host Determinants of Infectiousness in Smear-Positive Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic data suggests that only a minority of tuberculosis (TB) patients are infectious. Cough aerosol sampling is a novel quantitative method to measure TB infectiousness. METHODS: We analyzed data from three studies conducted in Uganda and Brazil over a 13-year period. We include...

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Publié dans:Open Forum Infect Dis
Auteurs principaux: Acuña-Villaorduña, Carlos, Ayakaka, Irene, Schmidt-Castellani, Luiz Guilherme, Mumbowa, Francis, Marques-Rodrigues, Patricia, Gaeddert, Mary, White, Laura F, Palaci, Moises, Ellner, Jerrold J, Dietze, Reynaldo, Joloba, Moses, Fennelly, Kevin P, Jones-López, Edward C
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557197/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31205972
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz184
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