Risk factors for treatment default among re-treatment tuberculosis patients in India, 2006

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jha, Ugra Mohan ^a   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^b   Dewan, Puneet K ^c   Chadha, Sarabjit ^c   Wares, Fraser ^c   Sahu, Suvanand ^c   Gupta, Devesh ^a   Chauhan, L S ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^b Centre for Ageing Research   (India)

^c Office of the WHO Representative to India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; RETREATMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77749258225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008873     Document Type: Article

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