The burden of extrapulmonary and meningitis tuberculosis: An investigation of national surveillance data, Germany, 2002 to 2009

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ducomble, T ^a,b   Tolksdorf, K ^a   Karagiannis, I ^a   Hauer, B ^a   Brodhun, B ^a   Haas, W ^a   Fiebig, L ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 84875497845     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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