Increased yield of smear positive pulmonary TB cases by screening patients with > or =2 weeks cough, compared to > or =3 weeks and adequacy of 2 sputum smear examinations for diagnosis.

The Indian journal of tuberculosis

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 77-83

  Thomas, Aleyamma ^a   Chandrasekaran, V ^a   Joseph, Pauline ^a   Rao, Vijay Baskar ^a   Patil, A B ^a   Jain, D K ^a   Chowdhary, Dutta ^a   Saibabu, ^a   Mahapatra, Sahana ^a   Devi, Santha ^a   Wares, Fraser ^a   Narayanan, P R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTPATIENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPUTUM; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MASS SCREENING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTPATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 52049098446     PISSN: 00195707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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