Knowledge, attitudes and practices of newly diagnosed sputum positive cases of pulmonary tuberculosis

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 247-252

  Bhat, Sunil ^a,b   Singal, N ^d   Aggarwal, C S ^a,b   Jain, R C ^c  

^a LRS Inst of TB/All Diseases   (India)

^b National Anti Malaria Programme   (India)

^c Lala Ram Sarup Inst TB All Dis   (India)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0033288594     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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