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Follow-Up of Chronic Coughers Improves Tuberculosis Case Finding: Results from a Community-Based Cohort Study in Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Untreated smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients are the primary source of infection; however, a large number of TB cases have not been identified and are untreated in many sub-Saharan African countries, including Ethiopia. This study determined whether or not a community-based follow...
Autores principales: | Woldesemayat, Endrias M., Datiko, Daniel G., Lindtjørn, Bernt |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342215/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25719541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116324 |
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