Tuberculosis in the Elderly: Epidemiology and Optimal Management

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 436-444

  Davies, Peter D O ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; ISONIAZID PLUS RIFAMPICIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMATE; RIFAMPICIN; RIFATER; STREPTOMYCIN; THIOACETAZONE;

ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; SKIN DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029984186     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199608060-00005     Document Type: Article

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