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Population-Level Impact of Active Tuberculosis Case Finding in an Asian Megacity

BACKGROUND: The potential population-level impact of private-sector initiatives for tuberculosis (TB) case finding in Southeast Asia remains uncertain. In 2011, the Indus Hospital TB Control Program in Karachi, Pakistan, undertook an aggressive case-finding campaign that doubled notification rates,...

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Autores principales: Dowdy, David W., Lotia, Ismat, Azman, Andrew S., Creswell, Jacob, Sahu, Suvanand, Khan, Aamir J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24147015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077517