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Survival and health status of DOTS tuberculosis patients in rural Lao PDR

BACKGROUND: Contact tracing of tuberculosis (TB) patients is rarely performed in low-income countries. Our objective was to assess the outcome of and compliance with directly observed treatment (DOTS) of TB patients over a 3 year period in rural Lao PDR. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort...

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Autores principales: Barennes, Hubert, Keophithoun, Thongdam, Nguyen, Tuan H, Strobel, Michel, Odermatt, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-265