Completeness of tuberculosis case reporting, San Juan and Caguas Regions, Puerto Rico, 1992

Public Health Reports

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-161

  Driver, Cynthia R ^a,b   Braden, Christopher R ^a,b   Nieves, Rita L ^c   Navarro, Ana M ^c   Rullan, John V ^c   Valway, Sarah E ^a,b   McCray, Eugene ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Natl Center for Prevention Services   (United States)

^c Puerto Rico Department of Health   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUERTO RICO; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029970377     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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