Concurrent influenza virus infection and tuberculosis in patients hospitalized with respiratory illness in Thailand

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 244-248

  Roth, Serena ^a   Whitehead, Sara ^a,b   Thamthitiwat, Somsak ^a   Chittaganpitch, Malinee ^a   Maloney, Susan A ^a,b   Baggett, Henry C ^a,b   Olsen, Sonja J ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Influenza; Pneumonia; Respiratory diseases; Surveillance; Thailand; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COINFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876464374     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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