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Patient and health service delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Delay in the diagnosis of tuberculosis may worsen the disease, increase the risk of death and enhance tuberculosis transmission in the community. This study aims to determine the length of delay between the onset of symptoms and patients first visit to health care (patient delay), and th...

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Autores principales: Demissie, Meaza, Lindtjorn, Bernt, Berhane, Yemane
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC130033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12296975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-2-23