Author:Middelkoop, Keren; Bekker, Linda-Gail; Morrow, Carl; Zwane, Eugene; Wood, RobinDate:2009Background. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of South African mortality and morbidity. While adult TB arises from both recent and prior infection, childhood TB results from recent infection and reflects ongoing transmission occurring ...Read more
Author:Middelkoop, Keren; Bekker, Linda-Gail; Morrow, Carl; Lee, Namee; Wood, RobinDate:2014BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) transmission rates are exceptionally high in endemic TB settings. Adolescence represents a period of increasing TB infection and disease but little is known as to where adolescents acquire TB infection. We explored ...Read morecb