Tuberculosis Acquired Outside of Households, Rural Vietnam
Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2010
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294980/ |