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High mortality during tuberculosis treatment does not indicate long diagnostic delays in Vietnam: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: Delay in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment initiation may increase disease severity and mortality. In evaluations of tuberculosis control programmes high fatality rates during tuberculosis treatment, are used as an indicator of long delays in low HIV-prevalence settings. However, data...

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Autores principales: Vree, Marleen, Huong, Nguyen T, Duong, Bui D, Co, Nguyen V, Sy, Dinh N, Cobelens, Frank G, Borgdorff, Martien W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1976111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-210