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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...
Autores principales: | Datiko, Daniel G., Lindtjørn, Bernt |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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