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New Policies, New Technologies: Modelling the Potential for Improved Smear Microscopy Services in Malawi

BACKGROUND: To quantify the likely impact of recent WHO policy recommendations regarding smear microscopy and the introduction of appropriate low-cost fluorescence microscopy on a) case detection and b) laboratory workload. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: An audit of the laboratory register in an ur...

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Autores principales: Ramsay, Andrew, Cuevas, Luis E., Mundy, Catherine J. F., Nathanson, Carl-Michael, Chirambo, Petros, Dacombe, Russell, Squire, S. Bertel, Salaniponi, Felix M. L., Munthali, Sera
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/PMC2770123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19901989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007760