Clinical and social characteristics of the patients with tuberculosis in Eastern Anatolia

Tuberkuloz ve Toraks

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 349-354

  Akgün, Metin ^a,b   Kaynar, Hasan ^b   Saǧlam, Leyla ^b   Araz, Ömer ^b   Özden, Kemalettin ^b   Yapanoǧlu, Turgut ^b   Aydinli, Bülent ^b   Mirici, Arzu ^b  

^a Gö üs Hastaliklari Anabilim Dali   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Epidemiology; Non working females; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; TEACHER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TURKEY;

EID: 33847071315     PISSN: 04941373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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