Black race, sex, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis risk: An observational study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fiske, Christina T ^a   Griffin, Marie R ^a   Erin, Holt ^b   Warkentin, Jon ^b   Lisa, Kaltenbach ^a   Arbogast, Patrick G ^a   Sterling, Timothy R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TENNESSEE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 76949106555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-16     Document Type: Article

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