Low tuberculosis notification in mountainous Vietnam is not due to low case detection: A cross-sectional survey

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vree, M ^a,b   Hoa, N B ^c   Sy, D N ^c   Co, N V ^c   Cobelens, F G J ^a,b   Borgdorff, M W ^a,b  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c National Tuberculosis Program   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIET NAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM;

EID: 36448989640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-109     Document Type: Article

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