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Verbal autopsy-assigned causes of death among adults being investigated for TB in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Adults being investigated for TB in South Africa experience high mortality, yet causes of death (CoD) are not well defined. We determined CoD in this population using verbal autopsy (VA), and compared HIV- and TB-associated CoD using physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA) and InterVA-...

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Autores principales: Maraba, Noriah, Karat, Aaron S, McCarthy, Kerrigan, Churchyard, Gavin J, Charalambous, Salome, Kahn, Kathleen, Grant, Alison D, Chihota, Violet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5091329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27794093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trw058