Tuberculosis acquired outside of households, rural Vietnam.
Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues against the effectiveness of active TB case finding among household members.
Buu
Tran N
TN
Pham Ngoc Thach Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
van Soolingen
Dick
D
Huyen
Mai N T
MN
Lan
Nguyen N T
NN
Quy
Hoang T
HT
Tiemersma
Edine W
EW
Borgdorff
Martien W
MW
Cobelens
Frank G J
FG
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012424:Rural Population; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D014744:Vietnam / Q000453:epidemiology