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Adherence to Tuberculosis Therapy among Patients Receiving Home-Based Directly Observed Treatment: Evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment is the leading contributor to the selection of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and subsequent treatment failure. Tanzania introduced a TB Patient Centred Treatment (PCT) approach which gives new TB patients the choice betw...
Autores principales: | Mkopi, Abdallah, Range, Nyagosya, Lwilla, Fred, Egwaga, Saidi, Schulze, Alexander, Geubbels, Eveline, van Leth, Frank |
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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/PMC3526644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051828 |
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