Risk factors for intrathoracic tuberculosis in children from economic migrant populations of two dominican republic bateyes

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 782-786

  Cohn, Keri A ^a,b   Finalle, Rodney ^a,c,d   O'Hare, Geraldine ^a,c   Feris, Jesús M ^d   Fernández, Josefina ^d   Shah, Samir S ^a,b,c,e,f,g  

^a Alliance for International Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of General Pediatrics   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas   (Dominican Republic)

^e Departments of Pediatrics   (United States)

^f Departments of Microbiology and Epidemiology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Child; Dominican Republic; Epidemiology; Mycobacterium bovis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Transients and migrants; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; INTRATHORACIC TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

EID: 70249108519     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181a164a8     Document Type: Article

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