Risk factors for tuberculosis: A case–control study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 4; p. e0214235
• Main Authors: Shimeles, Ezra, Enquselassie, Fikre, Aseffa, Abraham, Tilahun, Melaku, Mekonen, Alemayehu, Wondimagegn, Getachew, Hailu, Tsegaye
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 02.04.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Alcohol; Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use; Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine; BCG; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Case-Control Studies; Communicable diseases; Control; Control methods; Cross infection; Disease susceptibility; Disease transmission; Ethiopia - epidemiology; Female; Health care; Health care facilities; Health Facilities; Health problems; Health risks; Health sciences; HIV; Hospital admission and discharge; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Incidence; Income; Infectious diseases; Logistic Models; Male; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Nosocomial infections; Overcrowding; Patient Compliance; Patient outcomes; Patients; People and Places; Poverty; Public health; Regression analysis; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Risk Factors; Smoking; Smoking - adverse effects; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Tuberculosis - physiopathology; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - physiopathology; Ethiopia; Nigeria; Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Tuberculosis remains a major public-health problem in the world, despite several efforts to improve case identification and treatment compliance. It is well known cause of ill-health among millions of people each year and ranks as the second leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide....