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Associations between selected immune-mediated diseases and tuberculosis: record-linkage studies.
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that there may be an association between some immune-mediated diseases and risk of tuberculosis (TB). METHODS: We analyzed a database of linked statistical records of hospital admissions and death certificates for the whole of England (1999 to 2011), and a similar database (the Oxford Record Linkage Study (ORLS)) for a region of southern England in an earlier period. Rate ratios for TB were determined, comparing immune-mediated disease cohorts with...
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- Peer reviewed
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 97
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
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1741-7015
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1741-7015
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394984
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- English
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- Ramagopalan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- © 2013 Ramagopalan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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