Pulmonary tuberculosis: A public health problem amongst the Saharia, a primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh, Central India

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Rao, Vikas G ^a   Gopi, Punnathanathu Gopalan ^a   Bhat, Jyothi ^a   Selvakumar, Nagamiah ^a   Yadav, Rajiv ^a   Tiwari, Balkrishna ^a   Gadge, Vijay ^a   Bhondeley, Manoj K ^a   Wares, Fraser ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central India; Saharia; Tribal; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUP; SEX RATIO; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954956234     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.2243     Document Type: Article

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