Incidence and Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Household Contacts of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in a Peri-Urban Population of South Delhi, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Jitendra ^a   Sankar, Manimuthu Mani ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Gopinath, Krishnamurthy ^a,c   Singh, Niti ^b   Mani, Kalaivani ^a   Singh, Sarman ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Lala Ram Sarup Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COUGHING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SPOUSE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONTACT TRACING; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880777466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069730     Document Type: Article

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