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Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Burden and Notifications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) case notification rates are usually higher in men than in women, but notification data are insufficient to measure sex differences in disease burden. This review set out to systematically investigate whether sex ratios in case notifications reflect differences in diseas...

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Autores principales: Horton, Katherine C., MacPherson, Peter, Houben, Rein M. G. J., White, Richard G., Corbett, Elizabeth L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27598345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002119