Tuberculosis outbreak in marijuana users, Seattle, Washington, 2004

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1156-1159

  Oeltmann, John E ^a   Oren, Eyal ^b   Haddad, Maryam B ^a   Lake, Linda K ^b   Harrington, Theresa A ^a   Ijaz, Kashef ^a   Narita, Masahiro ^b,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CLARITHROMYCIN; ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745965646     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.051436     Document Type: Article

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