Comorbidities in pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India: Opportunities for intervention.

We aimed to define characteristics of TB patients in Puducherry and two districts of Tamil Nadu, India and calculate the population attributable fractions (PAF) of TB from malnutrition and alcohol.New smear-positive TB cases were enrolled into the Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tube...

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Main Authors: Natasha S Hochberg, Sonali Sarkar, C Robert Horsburgh, Selby Knudsen, Jane Pleskunas, Swaroop Sahu, Rachel W Kubiak, S Govindarajan, Padmini Salgame, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Amsaveni Sivaprakasam, Laura F White, Noyal Maria Joseph, Jerrold J Ellner, Gautam Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5568341?pdf=render