Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study
Abstract Background Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-02-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-6573-z |