Active tuberculosis among Iraqi schoolchildren with positive skin tests and their household contacts

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 675-688

  Al Kubaisy, W ^a   Al Dulayme, A ^b   Hashim, D S ^c  

^a Al Nahrain University College of Medicine   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; IRAQ; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CONTACT TRACING; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; MALE; PARENTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 16844367597     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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