Tuberculosis in the elderly population: Findings from a State-level TB prevalence survey (2022) from India

Giridharan, Prathiksha and Newtonraj, Ariarathinam and Thiruvengadam, Kannan and Frederick, Asha and Selvaraju, Sriram (2025) Tuberculosis in the elderly population: Findings from a State-level TB prevalence survey (2022) from India. Tuberculosis in the elderly population: Findings from a State-level TB prevalence survey (2022) from India, 161 (3).

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Abstract

Population-based data on tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology are sparsely available from India. A large-scale cross-sectional TB survey was conducted among individuals aged 15 yr and above across Tamil Nadu in India by the State government. Advanced age is one of the major risk factor for TB, so this study undertook a sub-analysis of the data on elderly population from the original TB survey sample.

Affiliation:	ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Aged - frail elderly - Koch disease - latent tuberculosis - pulmonary tuberculosis
Subjects:	Tuberculosis > Clinical Research Tuberculosis
Divisions:	Clinical Research
Depositing User:	Mrs. N Lakshmi
Date Deposited:	08 May 2025 10:08
Last Modified:	08 May 2025 10:08
URI:	http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/2040

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