Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: A cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bjerregaard Andersen, Morten ^a,b   da Silva, Zacarias J ^a   Ravn, Pernille ^c   Ruhwald, Morten ^c   Andersen, Paul L ^b   Sodemann, Morten ^a,e   Gustafson, Per ^f   Aaby, Peter ^a,d   Wejse, Christian ^a,b  

^a Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Guinea-Bissau)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; URBAN POPULATION; ANIMAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GUINEA-BISSAU; HIV INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77950814041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-96     Document Type: Article

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