10-year assessment of treatment outcome among Cambodian refugees with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis in Khao-l-Dang, Thailand

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 384-387

  Sukrakanchana Trikham, P ^a,b   Puechal X ^a   Rigal, J ^a   Rieder, H L ^b,c,d  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b Formerly Thai/Swiss Red Cross Tuberculosis Programme Khao I Dang Prachinburi Thailand ^*  (Thailand)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SPUTUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0027064563     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0962-8479(92)90045-l     Document Type: Article

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