Clinical and epidemiological features of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a high incidence region.

• Main Authors: Carlos Pérez-Guzmán (Author), Mario H Vargas (Author), María del Rosario Arellano-Macías (Author), Silvia Hernández-Cobos (Author), Aurea Zelindabeth García- Ituarte (Author), Francisco Javier Serna-Vela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. To describe the clinical features of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EXPTB) and to evaluate epidemiological data to search for potential explanations for its high frequency in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Materials and methods. Clinical records of all patients with tuberculosis seen...