Indoor social networks in a South African township: potential contribution of location to tuberculosis transmission.

We hypothesized that in South Africa, with a generalized tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, TB infection is predominantly acquired indoors and transmission potential is determined by the number and duration of social contacts made in locations that are conducive to TB transmission. We therefore quantified...

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Main Authors: Robin Wood, Kimberly Racow, Linda-Gail Bekker, Carl Morrow, Keren Middelkoop, Daniella Mark, Stephen D Lawn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3387133?pdf=render