Rates of Tuberculosis Transmission to Children and Adolescents in a Community with a High Prevalence of HIV Infection among Adults | Zendy

Keren Middelkoop | Zendy; LindaGail Bekker | Zendy; Landon Myer | Zendy; Rodney Dawson | Zendy; Robin Wood | Zendy

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Rates 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

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.

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