Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Adults in a Rural Sub-District of South India

BACKGROUND: We conducted a survey to estimate point prevalence of bacteriologically positive pulmonary TB (PTB) in a rural area in South India, implementing TB program DOTS strategy since 2002. METHODS: Survey was conducted among persons ≥15 years of age in fifteen clusters selected by simple random...

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Autores principales: Chadha, Vineet K., Kumar, Prahlad, Anjinappa, Sharada M., Singh, Sanjay, Narasimhaiah, Somashekar, Joshi, Malathi V., Gupta, Joydev, Lakshminarayana, Ramchandra, Jitendra, Velu, Magesh, Papkianathan, Suganthi, Babu, Suseendra, Krishna, Hemalatha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22956993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042625

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22956993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042625

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