Miliary tuberculosis: New insights into an old disease

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 415-430

  Sharma, Surendra Kumar ^a   Mohan, Alladi ^b   Sharma, Anju ^c   Mitra, Dipendra Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SRI VENKATESWARA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BCG VACCINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSERINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DELAVIRDINE; EFAVIRENZ; ETANERCEPT; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INDINAVIR; INFLIXIMAB; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; NELFINAVIR; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; SAQUINAVIR; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOPSY; BODY FLUID; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOGRAPHY; GAS EXCHANGE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM; TERATOGENICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; UVEITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 20544469888     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(05)70163-8     Document Type: Review

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