Increasing proportions of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis reported in the United States: Are delays in diagnosis on the rise?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1016-1022

  Wallace, Ryan MacLaren ^a   Kammerer, J Steve ^b   Iademarco, Michael F ^c   Althomsons, Sandy P ^b   Winston, Carla A ^a   Navin, Thomas R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c US Public Health Service   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Epidemiology; Low incidence; Smear positive; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72849130535     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200901-0059OC     Document Type: Article

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