Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among adults in a rural sub-district of South India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Chadha, Vineet K ^a   Kumar, Prahlad ^a   Anjinappa, Sharada M ^a   Singh, Sanjay ^a   Narasimhaiah, Somashekar ^a   Joshi, Malathi V ^a   Gupta, Joydev ^a   Lakshminarayana, ^a   Ramchandra, Jitendra ^a   Velu, Magesh ^a   Papkianathan, Suganthi ^a   Babu, Suseendra ^a   Krishna, Hemalatha ^a  

^a NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SPUTUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865059945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042625     Document Type: Article

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