Annual risk of tuberculous infection using different methods in communities with a high prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa.

Annual risk of tuberculous infection using different methods in communities with a high prevalence of TB and HIV in Zambia and South Africa.

BACKGROUND:The annual risk of tuberculous infection (ARTI) is a key epidemiological indicator of the extent of transmission in a community. Several methods have been suggested to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection using tuberculin skin test data. This paper explores the implications of...

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Main Authors: Kwame Shanaube, Charalambos Sismanidis, Helen Ayles, Nulda Beyers, Ab Schaap, Katherine-Anne Lawrence, Annie Barker, Peter Godfrey-Faussett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2771909?pdf=render

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