Gender differentials of pulmonary tuberculosis transmission and reactivation in an endemic area

Thorax

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 348-353

  Jimenez Corona M E ^b   Garcia Garcia L ^a,b   DeRiemer, K ^c   Ferreyra Reyes, L ^b   Bobadilla Del Valle, M ^d   Cano Arellano, B ^b   Canizales Quintero, S ^b   Martinez Gamboa A ^d   Small, P M ^e   Sifuentes Osornio, J ^d   Ponce De Leon A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Laboratorio de Microbiología   (Mexico)

^e BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE REACTIVATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33645555666     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2005.049452     Document Type: Article

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