Present situation and problems of tuberculosis in Japan - Its prevention, diagnosis and treatment

Kekkaku

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 683-691

  Aoki, Masakazu ^a  

^a FUKUJUJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stagnation of TB decrease; TB infection; Tuberculosis in Japan

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; BCG VACCINATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033191843     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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