Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in an Urban Slum of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Banu, Sayera ^a   Rahman, Md Toufiq ^a   Uddin, Mohammad Khaja Mafij ^a   Khatun, Razia ^a   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a   Rahman, Md Mojibur ^b   Husain, Md Ashaque ^b   van Leth, Frank ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b National Tuberculosis Control Programme   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886927325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077721     Document Type: Article

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