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Health Extension Workers Improve Tuberculosis Case Detection and Treatment Success in Southern Ethiopia: A Community Randomized Trial

BACKGROUND: One of the main strategies to control tuberculosis (TB) is to find and treat people with active disease. Unfortunately, the case detection rates remain low in many countries. Thus, we need interventions to find and treat sufficient number of patients to control TB. We investigated whethe...

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Autores principales: Datiko, Daniel G., Lindtjørn, Bernt
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424460
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005443