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Missed Opportunities for TB Investigation in Primary Care Clinics in South Africa: Experience from the XTEND Trial

SETTING: 40 primary health clinics (PHCs) in four provinces in South Africa, June 2012 –February 2013. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether health care worker (HCW) practice in investigating people with TB symptoms was altered when the initial test for TB was changed from smear microscopy to Xpert MTB/RI...

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Autores principales:	Chihota, Violet N., Ginindza, Sibuse, McCarthy, Kerrigan, Grant, Alison D., Churchyard, Gavin, Fielding, Katherine
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138149

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