Tuberculosis contact tracing.
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contact tracing: a strategy to augment tuberculosis case detection
sir, the world health organization has acknowledged that tuberculosis (tb) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide.[1] the global estimates suggest that in the year 2013, almost 9 million people were diagnosed with tb and around 1.5 million succumbed to the disease and its associated complications.[1] as an effective approach [viz. directly observed treatment and short‑course chem...
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1. World Health Organization. Global Tuberculosis Control Report 2014. Geneva: WHO Press; 2014. 2. Begun M, Newall AT, Marks GB, Wood JG. Contact tracing of tuberculosis: A systematic review of transmission modelling studies. PLoS One 2013;8:e72470. 3. Kasaie P, Andrews JR, Kelton WD, Dowdy DW. Timing of tuberculosis transmission and the impact of household contact tracing. An agent‐based simul...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.304.6843.1691-b