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Health seeking behaviour, health system experience and tuberculosis case finding in Gambians with cough

BACKGROUND: Studies in Africa investigating health-seeking behaviour by interviewing tuberculosis patients have revealed patient knowledge issues and significant delays to diagnosis. We aimed to study health-seeking behaviour and experience of those with cough in The Gambia and to identify whether t...

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Autores principales:	Kasse, Yaya, Jasseh, Momodou, Corrah, Tumani, Donkor, Simon A, Antonnio, Martin, Jallow, Adama, Adegbola, Richard A, Hill, Philip C
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2006
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16753057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-143

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