Clinical features of Tibetan adolescent tuberculosis at high altitudes: a retrospective study
Adolescent patients with pulmonary TB at high altitudes were prone to subclinical TB and have a higher previous TB exposure rate. Sputum GeneXpert test and ESR were important for the diagnosis of subclinical pulmonary TB.
Authors
- Wei Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9251-0360)
- Wen Luo
- Rongmin Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-6700)
- Minxue Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0441-9303)
- Yirong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-7939)
- Xuerong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2556-528X)
- Pei‐Fen Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5470-321X)
- Peiyan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7788-0515)
- Banjiu Luobu
Institutions
- Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (CN)
- Hong Kong Baptist University (HK)
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital (CN)
- Puer University (CN)
- Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Pulmonary Medicine
- Published
- 2024-12-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-024-03427-6
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00