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It’s complicated: why do tuberculosis patients not initiate or stay adherent to treatment? A qualitative study from South Africa

BACKGROUND: Individuals who test positive for active tuberculosis (TB) but do not initiate treatment present a challenge to TB programmes because they contribute to ongoing transmission within communities. To better understand why individuals do not initiate treatment, or are adherent after initiati...

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Autores principales: Skinner, Donald, Claassens, Mareli
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/PMC5124309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27887646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-2054-5