Outcome of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland in 1996

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 132, Issue 35-36, 2002, Pages 517-522

  Helbling, Peter ^a,c   Medinger, C ^b   Altpeter, Ekkehart ^a   Raeber, Pierre Alain ^a   Beeli, D ^a   Zellweger, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^b University Medical Policlinic   (Switzerland)

^c BAG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cohort analysis; Surveillance; Switzerland; Treatment outcome; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037037293     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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