Infection status of contacts is not associated with severity of TB in the index case

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
³ Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Y Baik et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 1;25(3):237-240.

doi: 10.5588/ijtld.20.0700.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
³ Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: none declared.

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