Risk of Progression to Active Tuberculosis Following Reinfection With Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Zendy

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Risk of Progression to Active Tuberculosis Following Reinfection With Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Author(s) -

Jason R. Andrews,

Farzad Noubary,

Rochelle P. Walensky,

Rodrigo Cerda,

Elena Losina,

C. Robert Horsburgh

Publication year - 2012

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 - 10.1093/cid/cir951

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , latent tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , rate ratio , population , confidence interval , cohort study , cohort , prospective cohort study , immunology , pathology , environmental health , physics , optics

The risk of progression to active tuberculosis is greatest in the several years following initial infection. The extent to which latent tuberculosis infection reduces the risk of progressive disease following reexposure and reinfection is not known. Indirect estimates from population models have been highly variable.

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