Seasonality of tuberculosis in India: Is it real and what does it tell us?

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9445, 2004, Pages 1613-1614

  Thorpe, Lorna E ^a,b,e   Frieden, Thomas R ^a,b,c   Laserson, Kayla F ^a   Wells, Charles ^a   Khatri, Gulshan R ^d  

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

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^e Division of Epidemiology (CN#6)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 7444225887     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17316-9     Document Type: Article

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