Tuberculosis active case-finding in a mother-tochild HIV transmission prevention programme in Soweto, South Africa

AIDS

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1398-1400

  Nachega, Jean ^a,b   Coetzee, Jennifer ^a   Adendorff, Tania ^a   Msandiwa, Regina ^a   Gray, Glenda E ^a   McIntyre, James A ^a   Chaisson, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE FINDING; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0038336952     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200306130-00018     Document Type: Article

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