To x-ray or not to x-ray? Screening asymptomatic children for pulmonary TB: A retrospective audit

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 401-404

  Gwee, Amanda ^a   Pantazidou, Anastasia ^a   Ritz, Nicole ^a,b   Tebruegge, Marc ^a,c   Connell, Tom G ^a,c   Cain, Tim ^a,c   Curtis, Nigel ^a,c  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; ISONIAZID;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

GENERAL PAEDIATRICS; INFECTIOUS DISEASES;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VICTORIA;

EID: 84877337996     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303672     Document Type: Article

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