Tuberculosis among older adults in Zambia: burden and characteristics among a neglected group

BACKGROUND: The 2010 Global Burden of Disease estimates show that 57% of all TB deaths globally occurred among adults older than 50 years of age. Few studies document the TB burden among older adults in Southern Africa. We focused on adults older than 55 years to assess the relative TB burden and as...

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Autores principales: Coffman, Jenna, Chanda-Kapata, Pascalina, Marais, Ben J., Kapata, Nathan, Zumla, Alimuddin, Negin, Joel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29025403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4836-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29025403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4836-0

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