The Association between active and passive smoking and latent tuberculosis infection in adults and children in the united states: results from NHANES.

Few studies assessing the relationship between active and passive smoking and tuberculosis have used biomarkers to measure smoke exposure. We sought to determine the association between active and passive smoking and LTBI in a representative sample of US adults and children.We used the 1999-2000 US...

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Main Authors: Ryan P Lindsay, Sanghyuk S Shin, Richard S Garfein, Melanie L A Rusch, Thomas E Novotny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3963991?pdf=render