Contact tracing/pre-employment screening for pulmonary tuberculosis: Should positive mantoux test necessitates routine chest X-ray

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 159-163

  Adeyekun, A A ^a   Egbagbe, E E ^a   Oni, O A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; contact tracing; mantoux test; pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTACT EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EMPLOYMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONTACT TRACING; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CHEST X-RAY; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PERSONNEL SELECTION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956246991     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.68364     Document Type: Article

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