A prospective study of the prevalence of tuberculosis and bacteraemia in Bangladeshi children with severe malnutrition and pneumonia including an evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF assay

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Chisti, Mohammod Jobayer ^a,b   Graham, Stephen M ^b,c   Duke, Trevor ^b   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a   Ashraf, Hasan ^a   Faruque, Abu Syed Golam ^a   La Vincente, Sophie ^b   Banu, Sayera ^a   Raqib, Rubhana ^a   Salam, Mohammed Abdus ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; STOMACH LAVAGE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; COMORBIDITY; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM;

BACTEREMIA; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84898778967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093776     Document Type: Article

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