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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
Materias:	Research Article
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

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