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Point-of-Care Urine Tests for Smoking Status and Isoniazid Treatment Monitoring in Adult Patients

BACKGROUND: Poor adherence to isoniazid (INH) preventive therapy (IPT) is an impediment to effective control of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. TB patients who smoke are at higher risk of latent TB infection, active disease, and TB mortality, and may have lower adherence to their TB medications....

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Autores principales: Nicolau, Ioana, Tian, Lulu, Menzies, Dick, Ostiguy, Gaston, Pai, Madhukar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045913