Socio‐demographic Profile of Tuberculosis Patient: a Hospital Based Study at Dehradun
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Background: In healthy people infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis often causes no symptoms since the person’s immune system acts to “wall off” the bacteria. The common symptoms of active TB of the lung are coughing, sometimes with sputum or blood, chest pain, weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. If left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on an average between 10 and 15 people every year and this continues the transmission of Tuberculosis. So to understand these factors study was carried out about socio-demographic profile of patients attending DOTS Microscopy Centre (DMC).
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تاریخ انتشار 2014