Prague Med. Rep. 2020, 121, 35-41

https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2020.3

The Prevalence of Absolute and Functional Iron Deficiency Anemia in New Cases of Smear-positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Their Sputum Conversion Rate at the End of Intensive Tuberculosis Treatment Phase

Maliheh Metanat1, Mohammad Ali Mashhadi2, Roya Alavi-Naini1, Leli Rezaie-Kahkhaie3, Nahid Sepehri-Rad1, Mahdi Afshari4

1Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Resistant Tuberculosis Institute, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
2Department of Internal Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
3Department of Infectious Diseases, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran
4Department of Community Medicine, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran

Received October 16, 2019
Accepted February 17, 2020

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