Incidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with coincident filarial and/or intestinal helminth infections followed longitudinally in South India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Chatterjee, Soumya ^a   Kolappan, Chockalingam ^b   Subramani, Rangasamy ^b   Gopi, Punnathanathu G ^b   Chandrasekaran, Vedhachalam ^b   Fay, Michael P ^a   Babu, Subash ^b,c   Kumaraswami, Vasanthapuram ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; SKIN TEST; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COINFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899626208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094603     Document Type: Article

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