Environmental aspects related to tuberculosis and intestinal parasites in a low-income community of the Brazilian Amazon

Environmental aspects related to tuberculosis and intestinal parasites in a low-income community of the Brazilian Amazon

ABSTRACT We carried out a cross-sectional study from January to December 2015 on 1,425 inhabitants from a floating population in the Brazilian Amazon (Murinin district, Pará State) to describe the population-based prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) from 2011 to 2014, recent TB contacts (rCts) latently...

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Main Authors: Biatriz Araújo Cardoso, Fabio de Oliveira Fonseca, Antonio Henrique Almeida de Moraes Neto, Ana Caroline Guedes Souza Martins, Nissa Vilhena da Silva Oliveira, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, George Alberto da Silva Dias, Maria Helena Féres Saad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Subjects:
Intestinal parasites
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
LTBI
Amazon
Neglected communities
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