Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis depending on the age and sex of source cases

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 934-943

  Borgdorff, Martien W ^a   Nagelkerke, Nico J D ^b,c   De Haas, Petra E W ^c   Van Soolingen, Dick ^c  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Polymorphism; Pulmonary; Restriction fragment length; Sex; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MODELING; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT INFORMATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; SEX FACTORS; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0035890301     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/154.10.934     Document Type: Article

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