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Abstract
The dormant form of TUBERCULOSIS where the person shows no obvious symptoms and no sign of the causative agent (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) in the SPUTUM despite being positive for tuberculosis infection skin test.
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- Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Infection, Latent Tuberculosis
- Infections, Latent Tuberculosis
- Latent Tuberculoses
- Latent Tuberculosis Infections
- Tuberculoses, Latent
- Tuberculosis Infection, Latent
- Tuberculosis Infections, Latent
- Tuberculosis, Latent
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36 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
2010
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Previous Indexing
- Tuberculosis (1950-2009)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Latent Tuberculosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D055985. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D055985
- Latent Tuberculosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_tuberculosis
- Latent Tuberculosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4254929