Tuberculosis in the elderly in Germany

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 467-470

  Hauer, B ^a   Brodhun, B ^a   Altmann, D ^a   Fiebig, L ^a   Loddenkemper, R ^b   Haas, W ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b German Central Committee Against Tuberculosis   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRAZINAMIDE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051522942     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00199910     Document Type: Letter

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