Incident Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in household contacts of infectious tuberculosis patients in Brazil
2017
Background
In household contact investigations of tuberculosis (TB), a second tuberculin skin test (TST) obtained several weeks after a first negative result consistently identifies individuals that undergo TST conversion. It remains unclear whether this delay in M. tuberculosis infection is related to differences in the infectious exposure, TST boosting, partial host resistance, or some other factor.
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