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Treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculosis in Addis Ababa: a five-year retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) kills one child every 5 min. Childhood TB is given low priority in most national health programmes particularly in TB-endemic areas. TB among children is an indicator of a recent transmission of the disease in the community. Treatment outcome results serve as a proxy of...

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Autores principales: Tilahun, Genene, Gebre-Selassie, Solomon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27443308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3193-8