Tuberculosis in pregnancy - Case studies and a review of Australia's screening process

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 451-455

  McCarthy, Fergus P ^a   Rowlands, Shelley ^a   Giles, Michelle ^a  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Screening; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BCG VACCINE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUSTRALIA; BCG VACCINATION; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MALE; MIGRATION; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SCREENING TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BCG VACCINE; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748196363     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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