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Evidence for asymptomatic TB transmission in rural South Africa

2026-06-26

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Whether asymptomatic TB contributes to M. tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission is critical to global public health strategy. To address this, we evaluated microbiologic, radiographic, molecular and spatial data from a population-based TB study in South Africa. We found that 82% of microbiologically-confirmed pulmonary TB occurred in asymptomatic individuals. Microbiologic and radiologic corr...

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Literature Corpus work: 6d54c99d-2fe1-5c86-b969-058812843d70
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9569436/v1

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