Tuberculosis Acquired Outside of Households, Rural Vietnam

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Buu, Tran N. ; van Soolingen, Dick ; Huyen, Mai N.T. ; Lan, Nguyen N.T. ; Quy, Hoang T. ; Tiemersma, Edine W. ; Borgdorff, Martien W. ; Cobelens, Frank G.J.
• Description:
  Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues against the effectiveness of active TB case finding among household members.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Family Characteristics Female Genotype Humans Male Middle Aged Minisatellite Repeats Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Prospective Studies Rural Population Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 16(9):1466-1468.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Vietnam
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b1ad519c85e3f8341f1d2ff8600fc5a34b0b1f7d98ca03dd427137136883fb44
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18261/cdc_18261_DS1.pdf
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