Healthcare-seeking behavior, treatment delays and its determinants among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in rural Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Nigeria ranks fourth among 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries. Although it reached 99% DOTS coverage in 2008, current case detection rate is 40%. Little is known about delays before the start of TB therapy and health-seeking behaviour of TB patients in rural resource-limited sett...

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Autores principales: Ukwaja, Kingsley N, Alobu, Isaac, Nweke, Chibueze O, Onyenwe, Ephraim C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23327613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-25

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23327613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-25

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