Tuberculosis in elderly

Kekkaku

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 479-482

  Yokoyama, Toshinobu ^a   Rikimaru, Toru ^a   Gohara, Rumi ^a   Sueyasu, Yoshiko ^a   Aizawa, Hisamichi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; IFN ; Tuberculin reaction; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NURSING; PERFORMANCE; SKIN TEST; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0041309921     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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