Natural History of Tuberculosis: Duration and Fatality of Untreated Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Negative Patients: A Systematic Review

Tiemersma, Edine; J. van der Werf, Marieke; W. Borgdorff, Martien; Williams, Brian; Nagelkerke, Nico

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017601

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Natural History of Tuberculosis: Duration and Fatality of Untreated Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Negative Patients: A Systematic Review

Published in PLoS ONE • Apr 4, 2011

Authors:

Edine Tiemersma

Marieke J. van der Werf

Martien W. Borgdorff

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The prognosis, specifically the case fatality and duration, of untreated tuberculosis is important as many patients are not correctly diagnosed and therefore receive inadequate or no treatment. Furthermore, duration and case fatality of tuberculosis are key parameters in interpreting epi...

Subject

Tuberculosis

Medicine

Case fatality rate

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