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Tuberculosis
Data on tuberculosis discussed by L. Xu and colleagues
September 16th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "In order to document the effect of treatment delay on tuberculosis (TB) latent infection among the household contacts of TB patients, a cross-sectional TB infection prevalence survey was conducted among household contacts in Yunnan Province, southern China. In total, 1360 household contacts of 393 smear-positive pulmonary TB patients were enrolled, together with 308 household contacts of 90 non-TB patients." "Using the contacts of non-TB patients as the baseline of TB infection, there was a dose-response relationship between household...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-16)
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