Smear microscopy and culture conversion rates among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients by HIV status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Senkoro, Mbazi ^a   Mfinanga, Sayoki G ^a   Mørkve, Odd ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; TANZANIA; TREATMENT DURATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954549241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-210     Document Type: Article

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