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High prevalence of TB disease in contacts of adults with extrapulmonary TB

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  • Tom Wingfield Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Department of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter MacPherson Department of Public Health, Cheshire and Merseyside Health Protection Team, Public Health England North West, Liverpool, UK Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul Cleary Department of Public Health, Cheshire and Merseyside Health Protection Team, Public Health England North West, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • L Peter Ormerod Lancashire Postgraduate School of Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tom Wingfield, University of Liverpool, Institute of Infection and Global Health, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK; tomwingfield{at}hotmail.co.uk
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Wingfield T, MacPherson P, Cleary P, et al
High prevalence of TB disease in contacts of adults with extrapulmonary TB
Thorax 2018;73:785-787.

Publication history

  • Received March 8, 2017
  • Revised October 18, 2017
  • Accepted October 23, 2017
  • First published November 16, 2017.
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September 01, 2022

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