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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...
Autores principales: | Telisinghe, Lilanganee, Fielding, Katherine L., Malden, Justin L., Hanifa, Yasmeen, Churchyard, Gavin J., Grant, Alison D., Charalambous, Salome |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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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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