Tuberculosis patients hospitalized in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné, Gabon-a retrospective observational study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Stolp, S M ^a,b   Huson, M A M ^a,b   Janssen, S ^a,b   Beyeme, J O ^c   Grobusch, M P ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CERMEL   (Gabon)

^c Hôpital Albert Schweitzer   (Gabon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Drug resistance; Gabon; human immunodeficiency virus; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

CENTRAL AFRICA; DRUG RESISTANCE; GABON; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GABON; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84885468430     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12278     Document Type: Article

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