Effect of smoking on treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Malaysia; a multicenter study

• Päätekijät: Amer Hayat Khan (Tekijä), Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman (Tekijä), Mohamed Azmi Hassali (Tekijä), Kashif Ullah Khan (Tekijä), Long Chiau Ming (Tekijä), Omer Mateen (Tekijä), Malik Obaid Ullah (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Smoking plays a key role in the development of tuberculosis (TB) infection and is also a predictor of poor TB treatment prognosis and outcomes. The current study was conducted to determine the prevalence of smoking and to assess the effects of smoking on treatment outcomes among...