Increased Incidence of Tuberculosis in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Nephron

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 421-424

  Cengiz, Kuddusi ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ETHAMBUTOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0029957060     PISSN: 16608151     EISSN: 22353186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189104     Document Type: Article

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