Age-specific prevalence of TB infection among household contacts of pulmonary TB: Is it time for TB preventive therapy?

BACKGROUND: Household contacts (HHCs) of TB patients are at high risk of developing evidence of latent TB infection (LTBI) and active disease from the index patient. We estimated the age-specific prevalence of LTBI and the force of infection (FI), as a measure of recent transmission, among HHCs of a...

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Publié dans:Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
Auteurs principaux: Dolla, Chandra Kumar, Padmapriyadarsini, Chandrasekaran, Thiruvengadam, Kannan, Lokhande, Rahul, Kinikar, Aarti, Paradkar, Mandar, BM, Shrinivas, Murali, Lakshmi, Gupte, Akshay, Gaikwad, Sanjay, Selvaraju, Sriram, Padmanaban, Yashoda, Pattabiraman, Sathyamurthy, Pradhan, Neeta, Kulkarni, Vandana, Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra, Prithivi, Munivardhan, Kagal, Anju, Karthavarayan, Barath Thopili, Suryavanshi, Nishi, Gupte, Nikhil, Kumaran, Paul, Mave, Vidya, Gupta, Amita
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Oxford University Press 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792162/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31225622
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trz049
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