High Tuberculosis Prevalence in a South African Prison: The Need for Routine Tuberculosis Screening

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a major health concern in prisons, particularly where HIV prevalence is high. Our objective was to determine the undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (“undiagnosed tuberculosis”) prevalence in a representative sample of prisoners in a South African prison. In addition we in...

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Autores principales: Telisinghe, Lilanganee, Fielding, Katherine L., Malden, Justin L., Hanifa, Yasmeen, Churchyard, Gavin J., Grant, Alison D., Charalambous, Salome
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24498059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087262

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24498059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087262

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