Cough-aerosol cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the prediction of outcomes after exposure. A household contact study in Brazil.

Cough-aerosol cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the prediction of outcomes after exposure. A household contact study in Brazil.

BACKGROUND:Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures of cough-generated aerosols from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are a quantitative method to measure infectiousness and to predict secondary outcomes in exposed contacts. However, their reproducibility has not been established. OBJECTIVE:To e...

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Main Authors: Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña, Luiz Guilherme Schmidt-Castellani, Patricia Marques-Rodrigues, Laura F White, David Jamil Hadad, Mary Gaeddert, Jerrold J Ellner, Kevin P Fennelly, Moises Palaci, Reynaldo Dietze, Edward C Jones-López
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6205616?pdf=render

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