Level of Exposure of Childhood Tuberculosis with Adult Pulmonary Tuberculosis Household Contacts
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Childhood Tuberculosis in Household Contacts of Newly Diagnosed TB Patients
INTRODUCTION Childhood tuberculosis (TB), although estimated to account for a major proportion of the global TB disease burden, has a lower public health priority. Reliable research and surveillance data on childhood TB is limited in most regions of the world. This study was conducted to assess the burden of childhood TB among the household contacts of new TB patients in Karachi, Pakistan. ME...
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عنوان ژورنال: Kesmas: National Public Health Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2460-0601,1907-7505
DOI: 10.21109/kesmas.v12i1.1469