Hearing impairment in patients with tuberculosis from Northeast Brazil Alteração auditiva em pacientes com tuberculose no nordeste do Brasil

The aim of this paper is to describe the auditory profile of subjects who were given streptomycin treatment for tuberculosis in the years 2000 and 2001, in Recife, Northeast Brazil. The Injury Notification Database at the Municipal Department of Health was consulted and 78 individuals who had been o...

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Main Authors: Maria Luiza Lopes Timóteo de Lima, Fábio Lessa, Ana Maria Aguiar-Santos, Zulma Medeiros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2006-04-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652006000200008