Contact screening and risk factors for TB among the household contact of children with active TB: a way to find source case and new TB cases

• Główni autorzy: Madeeha Laghari (Autor), Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman (Autor), Amer Hayat Khan (Autor), Bandeh Ali Talpur (Autor), Zohra Bhatti (Autor), Naheed Memon (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: BMC, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Source case investigation, for children with tuberculosis (TB), is conducted to establish the source of infection and to minimize the extent of on-going transmission from infectious persons in the community. The aim of the study was to evaluate the secondary TB cases and to inves...