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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Adult Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Metropolitan City of South India
BACKGROUND: The present study measured the community prevalence and risk factors of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Chennai city, and also studied geographical distribution and the presence of different M. tuberculosis strains in the survey area. METHODS: A community-based cross sectional surv...
Autores principales: | Dhanaraj, Baskaran, Papanna, Mohan Kumar, Adinarayanan, Srividya, Vedachalam, Chandrasekaran, Sundaram, Vijayaraj, Shanmugam, Shivakumar, Sekar, Gomathi, Menon, Pradeep Aravindan, Wares, Fraser, Swaminathan, Soumya |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25905900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124260 |
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