On the risk of being and becoming infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 356-357

  Rieder, Hans L ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b Tuberculosis Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 47549117201     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589751     Document Type: Note

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