Risk factors for infection and disease in child contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: A cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Seddon, James A ^a,b   Hesseling, Anneke C ^a   Godfrey Faussett, Peter ^b   Fielding, Katherine ^b   Schaaf, H S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Children; Disease; Drug resistant; Infection; Pediatric; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84883084387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-392     Document Type: Article

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