Cost Effectiveness of Cryptococcal Antigen Screening as a Strategy to Prevent HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis in South Africa

OBJECTIVES: Cryptococcal meningitis (CM)-related mortality may be prevented by screening patients for sub-clinical cryptococcal antigenaemia (CRAG) at antiretroviral-therapy (ART) initiation and pre-emptively treating those testing positive. Prior to programmatic implementation in South Africa we pe...

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Autores principales: Jarvis, Joseph N., Harrison, Thomas S., Lawn, Stephen D., Meintjes, Graeme, Wood, Robin, Cleary, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3716603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23894442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069288

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