TB incidence in an adolescent cohort in South Africa.

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Published in PLoS One on March 22, 2013

Authors

Hassan Mahomed1, Rodney Ehrlich, Tony Hawkridge, Mark Hatherill, Lawrence Geiter, Fazlin Kafaar, Deborah Ann Abrahams, Humphrey Mulenga, Michele Tameris, Hennie Geldenhuys, Willem Albert Hanekom, Suzanne Verver, Gregory Dudley Hussey

Author Affiliations

1: South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa. hmahomed799@gmail.com

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