A clinical evaluation of children under the age of five years who are household contacts of adults with sputum positive tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 28-32

  Mtombeni, S ^a   Mahomva, A ^b   Siziya, S ^a   Sanyika, C ^a   Doolabh, R ^a   Nathoo, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b Harare City Health Department   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM; STATISTICS; TUBERCULIN TEST; ZIMBABWE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0141797358     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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