Children and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai (Bombay), India [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1360-1361

  Karande, Sunil ^a,b   Bavdekar, Sandeep B ^c  

^a LOKMANYA TILAK MUNICIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE AND GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b LOKMANYA TILAK MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AUTOPSY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0036849145     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0811.020513     Document Type: Letter

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