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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study findings have been published by T.A. Pakasi and colleagues
July 13th, 2009
In this recent study, researchers in Jakarta, Indonesia conducted a study "To identify nutritional and socio-demographic factors for the development of tuberculosis (TB) in Timor and Rote Island, Indonesia, so that intervention programmes can be developed to address these factors. In a case-control study, we enrolled new sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB patients as cases, and neighbours matched for sex and age as controls." "Data obtained included history of TB, socio-demographic factors and nutritional status. In the study, 121 TB patients and 371 controls participated. The mean age was 30 years: 56.3% were male and 43.7% female. Of the TB patients, 87% had...
Source: Tuberculosis Week (2009-07-13)
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