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Sleeping with Tuberculosis: Do over-crowded university hostels in Kenya increase TB transmission among youths - A pilot study

2020-05-28

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<title>Abstract</title> Background Understanding the magnitude of Tuberculosis (TB) transmission among the youth is a global priority as the disease burden shifts to this population. Learning institutions host overcrowded accommodation and classrooms, especially in resource limited contexts. Understanding the global threat of the youth as an infection pool on the wider population is highlighted in the global...

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Literature Corpus work: 70578933-d6df-5688-a93c-4c1afb19aecd
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-30747/v1

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