Gender differences in notification rates, clinical forms and treatment outcome of tuberculosis patients under the RNTCP

Lung India

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-122

  Mukherjee, Abhijit ^a   Saha, Indranil ^b   Sarkar, Anirban ^c   Chowdhury, Ranadip ^a  

^a R G KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b BURDWAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Gender; revised national tuberculosis control programme; tuberculosis; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMEAR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860488178     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.95302     Document Type: Article

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