Tuberculosis: a study of 111 cases in an area of high prevalence in the extreme south of Brazil

Tuberculosis is an increasingly important public health problem in developing countries. We studied 111 tuberculosis patients confirmed by mycobacteria isolation between 1998 and 2000 in Rio Grande, in south Brazil. One-hundred-thirteen pulmonary and extrapulmonary clinical materials were examined t...

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Main Authors: Ivo Gomes de Mattos, Marta Osório Ribeiro, Isabel Cristina de O. Netto, Pedro Alves d'Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000300008&lng=en&tlng=en