Open AccessSmoking Cessation in Tuberculosis Patients and the Risk of Tuberculosis Infection in Child Household Contacts
Author(s) -
Alexander 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/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 - 10.1093/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.