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Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England
BACKGROUND: The national tuberculosis strain typing service (TB-STS) was introduced in England in 2010. The TB-STS involves MIRU-VNTR typing of isolates from all TB patients for the prospective identification, reporting and investigation of TB strain typing clusters. As part of a mixed-method evalua...
Autores principales: | Mears, Jessica, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Crisp, Debbie, Maguire, Helen, Innes, John A, Lilley, Mike, Lord, Joanne, Cohen, Ted, Borgdorff, Martien W, Vynnycky, Emilia, McHugh, Timothy D, Sonnenberg, Pam |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25273511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1023 |
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