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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in children in Kampala district, Uganda, 2009–2010; a retrospective cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The global tuberculosis (TB) estimate in 2011 was 500,000 cases among children under 15 years representing 5.7 % of all cases and 64, 000 deaths among HIV negative children representing 6.5 % of the total deaths. In Uganda, the child TB cases reported in 2012 made up less than 3 % of the...

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Autores principales: Wobudeya, Eric, Lukoye, Deus, Lubega, Irene R., Mugabe, Frank, Sekadde, Moorine, Musoke, Philippa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26407719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2312-2