Complexity in estimating recent tuberculosis transmission among predominantly immigrant school children in Stockholm, Sweden 2006

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 709-714

  Müller, Luise L ^a,b   Bennet, Rutger ^c   Gaines, Hans ^a,c   Zedenius, Inger ^d   Berggren, Ingela ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Department of Communicable Disease Control ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BCG VACCINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION RISK; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONTACT TRACING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SWEDEN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 50549101939     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540801995352     Document Type: Article

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