Detection of pulmonary tuberculosis among patients with cough attending outpatient departments in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: does duration of cough matter?

BACKGROUND: According to WHO estimates, tuberculosis case detection rate in Tanzania is less than 50% and this poses a major challenge to control tuberculosis in the country. Currently, one of the defining criteria for suspecting tuberculosis is cough for two weeks or more. We wanted to find out whe...

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Autores principales: Ngadaya, Esther S, Mfinanga, Godfrey S, Wandwalo, Eliud R, Morkve, Odd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19570233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-112

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19570233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-112

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