Prevalence and risk factors for adult pulmonary tuberculosis in a metropolitan city of South India.

Prevalence and risk factors for adult pulmonary tuberculosis in a metropolitan city of South India.

The present study measured the community prevalence and risk factors of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Chennai city, and also studied geographical distribution and the presence of different M. tuberculosis strains in the survey area.A community-based cross sectional survey was carried out fro...

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Main Authors: Baskaran Dhanaraj, Mohan Kumar Papanna, Srividya Adinarayanan, Chandrasekaran Vedachalam, Vijayaraj Sundaram, Shivakumar Shanmugam, Gomathi Sekar, Pradeep Aravindan Menon, Fraser Wares, Soumya Swaminathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4408069?pdf=render

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