Sexual inequality in tuberculosis.

Olivier Neyrolles, Lluis Quintana-Murci

Journal: PLoS medicine 2010;6(12):e1000199

PMID: 20027210

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Abstract

Olivier Neyrolles and Lluis Quintana-Murci review the evidence on why tuberulosis notification is twice as high in men as in women in most countries.

Address: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France. [email protected]

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000199

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MeSH Terms: Disease Notification, Disease Susceptibility, Female, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Humans, Male, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Nutrition Assessment, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Tuberculosis

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