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Tuberculosis acquired outside of households, rural Vietnam.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2010
Buu Tran N, van Soolingen Dick, Huyen Mai N T, Lan Nguyen N T, Quy Hoang T, Tiemersma Edine W, Borgdorff Martien W, Cobelens Frank G J
Abstract excerpt
Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result arg...
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