Symptom screening among HIV-infected pregnant women is acceptable and has high negative predictive value for active tuberculosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1015-1018

  Gupta, Amita ^a,b,c   Chandrasekhar, Aditya ^a   Gupte, Nikhil ^c   Patil, Sandesh ^c   Bhosale, Ramesh ^c,d   Sambarey, Pradeep ^c,d   Ghorpade, Shivahari ^c,d   Nayak, Uma ^b   Garda, Laila ^e   Sastry, Jayagowri ^c   Bharadwaj, Renu ^c,d   Bollinger, Robert C ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College   (United States)

^d Memorial Hospital   (India)

^e KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGHT SWEAT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054760386     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir605     Document Type: Article

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