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Can Follow-Up Examination of Tuberculosis Patients Be Simplified? A Study in Chhattisgarh, India
BACKGROUND: Each follow-up during the course of tuberculosis treatment currently requires two sputum examinations. However, the incremental yield of the second sputum sample during follow-up of different types of tuberculosis patients has never been determined precisely. OBJECTIVES: To assess the in...
Autores principales: | Kundu, Debashish, M. V. Kumar, Ajay, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Dewan, Puneet Kumar, Achuthan Nair, Sreenivas, Khaparde, Kshitij, Nayak, Priyakanta, Van den Bergh, Rafael, Manzi, Marcel, Enarson, Donald A., Deshpande, Madhav Rao, Chandraker, Sachin |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23227230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051038 |
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