Host determinants of infectiousness in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients

Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña,Irene Ayakaka,Luiz Guilherme Schmidt Castellani,Francis Mumbowa,Patricia Marques-Rodrigues,Mary Gaeddert,Laura F. White,Moises Palaci,Jerrold J. Ellner,Reynaldo Dietze,Moses Joloba,Kevin P. Fennelly,Edward C. Jones-López

Host determinants of infectiousness in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients

2019

Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña
Irene Ayakaka
Luiz Guilherme Schmidt Castellani
Francis Mumbowa
Patricia Marques-Rodrigues
Mary Gaeddert
Laura F. White
Moises Palaci
Jerrold J. Ellner
Reynaldo Dietze
Moses Joloba
Kevin P. Fennelly
Edward C. Jones-López

Background Epidemiologic data suggests that only a minority of tuberculosis (TB) patients are infectious. Cough aerosol sampling is a novel quantitative method to measure TB infectiousness.

Keywords:

Intensive care medicine
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Medicine
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Virology
Aerosol
Tuberculosis
Internal medicine
Sputum
liquid culture
aerosol sampling
tb treatment

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