Adolescent Females are More Susceptible than Males for Tuberculosis

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Published literature is silent about the gender gap in tuberculosis (TB) among adolescent (10–19 years) population despite extensive information on increased susceptibility of the male gender after 20 years. We analyzed the data from 1113 adolescent microbiologically confi...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Suman, Chauhan, Vivek, Kumar, Ravinder, Beri, Gopal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8054790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33911445
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_229_20