Tuberculin skin test conversion and reactivity rates among adults with and without human immunodeficiency virus in urban settings in Ethiopia

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 784-789

  Tegbaru, Belete ^a   Wolday, Dawit ^a   Messele, Tsehaynesh ^a   Legesse, Mengistu ^b   Mekonnen, Yared ^a   Miedema, Frank ^c   Van Baarle, Debbie ^c  

^a Ethio Netherlands AIDS Research Project ENARP   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33748056449     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00098-06     Document Type: Article

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