Tuberculosis acquired outside of households, rural Vietnam.
Publication year
2010Source
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16, 9, (2010), pp. 1466-8ISSN
Annotation
01 september 2010
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Organization
Medical Microbiology
Journal title
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume
vol. 16
Issue
iss. 9
Page start
p. 1466
Page end
p. 8
Subject
N4i 3: Poverty-related infectious diseases NCMLS 1: Infection and autoimmunityAbstract
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 against the effectiveness of active TB case finding among household members.
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