Risk factors for tuberculosis infection and disease

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 169-172

  Ponticiello, A ^a   Mazzarella, G ^a   Gilli, M ^a   Pisanti, C ^a   Sanduzzi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Risk factors; Tuberculosis transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036626839     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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