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- Title
Tuberculosis recurrences: reinfection plays a role in a population whose clinical/epidemiological characteristics do not favor reinfection.
- Authors
García de Viedma, Darío; Marín, Mercedes; Hernangómez, Susana; Díaz, Marisol; Ruiz Serrano, María Jesús; Alcalá, Luis; Bouza, Emilio
- Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) recurrences can be due to either reactivation by the same strain (standard assumption) or reinfection by a new strain. Reinfection has mainly been studied in selected populations with a high risk of reexposure to TB. Our aim was to analyze the role of reinfection in TB recurrences in unselected populations, without the clinical/epidemiological circumstances that favor the involvement of a new different strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the recurrence.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2002, Vol 162, Issue 16, p1873
- ISSN
0003-9926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.162.16.1873