The risk and timing of tuberculosis diagnosed in smear-negative TB suspects: A 12 month cohort study in Harare, Zimbabwe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Dimairo, Munyaradzi ^a   MacPherson, Peter ^b   Bandason, Tsitsi ^a   Zezai, Abbas ^a   Munyati, Shungu S ^a   Butterworth, Anthony E ^c   Mungofa, Stanley ^d   Rusikaniko, Simba ^e   Fielding, Katherine ^c   Mason, Peter R ^a   Corbett, Elizabeth L ^c  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d Harare City Health   (Zimbabwe)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ZIMBABWE; COHORT ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; SPUTUM; TIME;

COHORT STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77955640583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011849     Document Type: Article

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