Associations between selected immune-mediated diseases and tuberculosis: Record-linkage studies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   Goldacre, Raph ^c   Skingsley, Andrew ^d   Conlon, Chris ^e   Goldacre, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital episode statistics; Immune disease; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYXEDEMA; PEMPHIGOID; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROTOXICOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84875689057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-97     Document Type: Article

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