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Low tuberculosis notification in mountainous Vietnam is not due to low case detection: a cross-sectional survey

BACKGROUND: Studies show that tuberculosis notification declines with increasing altitude. This can be due to declining incidence or declining case detection. In Vietnam notification rates of new smear-positive tuberculosis in the central mountainous provinces (26/100,000 population) are considerabl...

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Autores principales: Vree, M, Hoa, NB, Sy, DN, Co, NV, Cobelens, FGJ, Borgdorff, MW
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2089070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17880701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-109