Active contact tracing beyond the household in multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Vietnam: a cohort study
BACKGROUND:Currently in Vietnam contact tracing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) entails passive case finding among symptomatic household contacts who present themselves for diagnosis. Close contacts of MDR-TB cases are therefore not identified adequately. We assessed the added value of...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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