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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Main Authors: Buu, Tran N., van Soolingen, Dick, Huyen, Mai N.T., Lan, Nguyen N.T., Quy, Hoang T., Tiemersma, Edine W., Borgdorff, Martien W., Cobelens, Frank G.J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294980/