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Infection and disease among household contacts of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

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2001

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L. Teixeira, Mark D. Perkins, Jacob Johnson, Raymond Keller, Moisés Palaci, Valdério do Valle Dettoni, L M Canedo Rocha, S. M. Debanne, EA Talbot, Reynaldo Dietze
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Abstract

Our data suggest that the prevalence of tuberculous infection and progression to active TB among household contacts exposed to DS and MDR-TB cases is comparable, despite a longer duration of exposure of contacts to the index case in patients with MDR-TB.