The Profile and Treatment Outcomes of the Older (Aged 60 Years and Above) Tuberculosis Patients in Tamilnadu, South India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ananthakrishnan, Ramya ^a   Kumar, Kaliyaperumal ^a   Ganesh, Marimuthu ^a   Kumar, Ajay M V ^b   Krishnan, Nalini ^a   Swaminathan, Sowmya ^c   Edginton, Mary ^d   K, Arunagiri ^e   Gupta, Devesh ^f  

^a Off Anna Salai   (India)

^b International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^e State Tuberculosis Office   (India)

^f GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84879995329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067288     Document Type: Article

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