Improved detection of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among tibetan refugees, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 463-468

  Dierberg, Kerry L ^a   Dorjee, Kunchok ^b,c   Salvo, Fulvio ^d   Cronin, Wendy A ^e   Boddy, J’Belle ^a   Cirillo, Daniela ^d   Sadutshang, Tsetan ^b,c   Chaisson, Richard E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Tibetan Delek Hospital   (India)

^c Central Tibetan Administration Department of Health   (India)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPID TEST; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ALGORITHM; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFUGEE; TIBET; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; TIBET; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958759748     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2203.140732     Document Type: Article

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