Comparison of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Nepal - A hospital-based retrospective study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T ^a   Panduru, Kishore V ^a   Verma, Sharat C ^a,b   Joshi, Hari S ^a   Bates, Michael N ^c  

^a MANIPAL TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^b SAARC Tuberculosis Centre   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SMOKING; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 39549091277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-8     Document Type: Article

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