Open AccessRates of Tuberculosis Transmission to Children and Adolescents in a Community with a High Prevalence of HIV Infection among Adults
Author(s) -
Keren Middelkoop,
LindaGail Bekker,
Landon Myer,
Rodney Dawson,
Robin Wood
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/589750
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , transmission (telecommunications) , pediatrics , environmental health , demography , virology , pathology , electrical engineering , engineering , sociology
Tuberculin skin test surveys are routinely used to test for tuberculosis (TB) infection in communities, but there are few data from tuberculin skin test surveys from countries in which both TB and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are prevalent.