Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis (TB) in an Emergency Room in a Region with High Prevalence of TB in Brazil

SETTING: Public hospital emergency room (ER) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a setting with high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of PTB, using a symptom based active case finding (ACF) strategy in the ER of a public ho...

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Autores principales: Silva, Denise Rossato, Müller, Alice Mânica, Tomasini, Karina da Silva, Dalcin, Paulo de Tarso Roth, Golub, Jonathan E., Conde, Marcus Barreto
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/PMC4161448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25211158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107576

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4161448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25211158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107576

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