- Abstract:
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Tuberculosis patients may be infected with or have disease caused by more than one Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain, usually referred to as "mixed infections." These have mainly been observed in settings with a very high tuberculosis incidence and/or high HIV prevalence. We assessed the rate of mixed infections in a population-based study in rural Vietnam, where the prevalences of both HIV and tuberculosis are substantially lower than those in previous studies looking at mixed infections. In...
Expand abstract - Journal:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1586-1592
- Publication date:
- 2012-05-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1098-660X
- ISSN:
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0095-1137
- URN:
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uuid:74e3be61-34a5-4b57-8cfa-0f1efcec0cda
- Source identifiers:
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313044
- Local pid:
- pubs:313044
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2012
Journal article
Mixed tuberculosis infections in rural South Vietnam.
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