A proposed comprehensive classification of tuberculosis disease severity in children

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-352

  Wiseman, Catherine A ^a   Gie, Robert P ^a   Starke, Jeffrey R ^b   Schaaf, H Simon ^a   Donald, Peter R ^a   Cotton, Mark F ^c   Hesseling, Anneke C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

childhood tuberculosis; classification; disease severity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHOROIDITIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; GRANULOMATA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; OCULAR TUBERCULOSIS; PAPILLITIS; PHLYCTENULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS; TUBERCULOUS EMPYEMA; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS OTITIS MEDIA; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS; TUBERCULOUS SYNOVITIS; TUBERCULOUS VASCULITIS; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; UVEITIS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84858793519     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318243e27b     Document Type: Article

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