Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis among adults in a north Indian district.

Recent population prevalence estimates of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are not available for several areas in India. We conducted a field-based population survey at a north Indian district to estimate point prevalence of bacteriologically positive PTB.A stratified cluster sampling design was used to...

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Main Authors: Ashutosh N Aggarwal, Dheeraj Gupta, Ritesh Agarwal, Sunil Sethi, Jarnail S Thakur, Sharada M Anjinappa, Vineet K Chadha, Rajesh Kumar, Meera Sharma, Digambar Behera, Surinder K Jindal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4335010?pdf=render