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Tuberculosis in farm workers exposed to dairy and beef livestock in Colombia

2019-10-28

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<h4>Summary</h4> The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of tuberculosis (TB) in workers from dairy and beef livestock farms in the northern part of Colombia. Tuberculin skin test and an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) were used for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis; sputum samples were taken from respiratory symptomatic subjects, microbiological and molecular tests were done for diagnosis...

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DOI: 10.1101/821751

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