Smoking Cessation in Tuberculosis Patients and the Risk of Tuberculosis Infection in Child Household Contacts | Zendy

Alexander L. Chu | Zendy; Leonid Lecca | Zendy; Roger Calderón | Zendy; Carmen Contreras | Zendy; Rosa Yataco | Zendy; Zibiao Zhang | Zendy; Mercedes C. Becerra | Zendy; Megan Murray | Zendy; Chuan-Chin Huang | Zendy

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Smoking Cessation in Tuberculosis Patients and the Risk of Tuberculosis Infection in Child Household Contacts

Author(s) -

Alexander L. Chu,

Leonid Lecca,

Roger Calderón,

Carmen Contreras,

Rosa Yataco,

Zibiao Zhang,

Mercedes C. Becerra,

Megan Murray,

Chuan-Chin Huang

Publication year - 2021

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/ciab504

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , smoking cessation , confidence interval , active tuberculosis , pediatrics , contact tracing , latent tuberculosis , adverse effect , poisson regression , demography , mycobacterium tuberculosis , environmental health , population , disease , pathology , covid-19 , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

While previous studies have shown that cigarette smoking increases the infectiousness of tuberculosis patients, the impact of smoking cessation on tuberculosis transmissibility has not been evaluated.

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