Natural ventilation reduces high TB transmission risk in traditional homes in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lygizos, Melissa ^a   Shenoi, Sheela V ^b   Brooks, Ralph P ^b   Bhushan, Ambika ^c   Brust, James C M ^d   Zelterman, Daniel ^e   Deng, Yanhong ^e   Northrup, Veronika ^e   Moll, Anthony P ^f   Friedland, Gerald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Church of Scotland Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Household; Infection control; MDR XDR TB; South Africa; Tuberculosis transmission; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM VENTILATION; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; TUBERCULOSIS; VENTILATION;

EID: 84879490984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-300     Document Type: Article

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