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Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries

Setting. Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, and Yemen. Objective. To reduce the time to complete sputum microscopy. Design. Cross-sectional surveys enrolling 923 patients with chronic cough in the 4 countries and using similar protocols. Spot-morning-spot sputum specimens were collected. An additional sputum...

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Autores principales:	Ramsay, Andy, Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed, Cambanis, Alexis, Hirao, Susumu, Almotawa, Ahmad, Gammo, Mohamed, Lawson, Lovett, Arbide, Izabel, Al-Aghbari, Nasher, Al-Sonboli, Najla, Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur, Gauchan, Punita, Cuevas, Luis Eduardo
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836912/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20309419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/398767

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