Burden of new and recurrent tuberculosis in a major South African city stratified by age and HIV-status

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wood, Robin ^a,b,c   Lawn, Stephen D ^a,b,d   Caldwell, Judy ^e   Kaplan, Richard ^a,b   Middelkoop, Keren ^a,b   Bekker, Linda Gail ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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

^e City of Cape Town   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS LOAD; CITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; RISK; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CITIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053896368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025098     Document Type: Article

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