Changing epidemiology of tuberculosis detected by an 8-year retrospective laboratory study in a tertiary teaching hospital in central Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 691-698

  Somily, Ali M ^a   Naeem, Tahir ^a   Habib, Hanan A ^a   Micro, Fel Path ^a   Sarwar, Mohammed S ^a   Kunimoto, Dennis Y ^a,b   Kambal, Abdelmageed M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; SAUDI ARABIA;

HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84904387810     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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