Delays and loss to follow-up before treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis following implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF in South Africa: A retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: South Africa has a large burden of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB), with 18,734 patients diagnosed in 2014. The number of diagnosed patients has increased substantially with the introduction of the Xpert MTB/RIF test, used for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis for all patients with p...

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Autores principales: Cox, Helen, Dickson-Hall, Lindy, Ndjeka, Norbert, van’t Hoog, Anja, Grant, Alison, Cobelens, Frank, Stevens, Wendy, Nicol, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5319645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28222095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002238

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