Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear

BMJ. 2008 Aug 28:337:a1184. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1184.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Chronic Disease
  • Contact Tracing / methods
  • Cough / microbiology
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / immunology
  • School Health Services
  • Sputum / microbiology*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / prevention & control
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / transmission*

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents