Age- and Sex-Specific Social Contact Patterns and Incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

We aimed to model the incidence of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis among adults using data on infection incidence in children, disease prevalence in adults, and social contact patterns. We conducted a cross-sectional face-to-face survey of adults in 2011, enumerating “close” (shared conver...

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Main Authors: Dodd, Peter J., Looker, Clare, Plumb, Ian D., Bond, Virginia, Schaap, Ab, Shanaube, Kwame, Muyoyeta, Monde, Vynnycky, Emilia, Godfrey-Faussett, Peter, Corbett, Elizabeth L., Beyers, Nulda, Ayles, Helen, White, Richard G.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706676/