Delayed inpatient diagnosis and isolation of active pulmonary tuberculosis patients, a large tertiary care academic hospital experience in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: What are we missing?

Abdulellah M. Almohaya; Naif H. Alotaibi; Muath A. Alotaibi; Ali M. Somily

doi:10.15537/smj.2020.2.24883

Article Information

vol. 41 no. 2 183-188

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.2.24883

PubMed

32020153

Published By

Saudi Medical Journal

Online ISSN

1658-3175

History

Received September 20, 2019
Accepted December 26, 2019
Published online February 1, 2020.

Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

Abdulellah M. Almohaya, MBBS ⇑,
Naif H. Alotaibi, MBBS,
Muath A. Alotaibi, MBBS and
Ali M. Somily, MBBS, FRCP

From the Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Unit (Almohaya, Alotaibi N, Alotaibi M), from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology Units (Somily), King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdulellah M. Almohaya, Department of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-amil: almohayaam{at}gmail.com. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4532-4626

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