Smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and AFB examination practices according to the standard checklist of WHO’s tuberculosis laboratory assessment tool in three governmental hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Using the Directly Observed Treatment-Short course (DOTS) program the World Health Organization’s global target was to detect 70% of new sputum-smear positive PTB cases. Smear positive PTB cases are more infectious than the smear negative cases. The TB case detection rate remains very lo...

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Autor principal: Mekonnen, Abiyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-295

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-295

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