Gender disparity in tuberculosis cases in eastern and western provinces of Pakistan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dogar, Omara F ^a   Shah, Sarwat K ^b   Chughtai, Abrar A ^c   Qadeer, Ejaz ^c  

^a Research and Development Unit   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

^c National Tuberculosis Control Programme   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Case notification rate; Male to female ratio; New sputum smear positive; Sex specific

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARE NOTIFICATION RATE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; PAKISTAN; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84867027378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-244     Document Type: Article

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