Estimating the prevalence of tuberculosis infection in the United States population

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-

  Rieder, Hans L ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51849164562     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.178.6.651     Document Type: Letter

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