How contagious is tuberculosis?

Clin Infect Dis. 1996 Nov;23(5):954-62. doi: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.954.

Author

K A Sepkowitz¹

Affiliation

¹ Infectious Disease Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York 10021, USA.

PMID: 8922785
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.954

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Cough
Humans
Mycobacterium tuberculosis* / isolation & purification
Tuberculosis / microbiology
Tuberculosis / therapy
Tuberculosis / transmission*
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Ventilation