Impact of malnutrition on clinical presentation, clinical course, and mortality in MDR-TB patients

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-120

  Podewils, L J ^a   Holtz, T ^a   Riekstina, V ^b   Skripconoka, V ^b   Zarovska, E ^b   Kirvelaite, G ^b   Kreigere, E ^b   Leimane, V ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b State Agency of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; epidemiology; infectious disease; tuberculosis (TB)

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; CAPREOMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PROTIONAMIDE; THIOACETAZONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATVIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDERWEIGHT; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOLOGY; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATVIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THINNESS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952116664     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000907     Document Type: Article

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