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The contribution of a non-governmental organisation’s Community Based Tuberculosis Care Programme to case finding in Myanmar: trend over time
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that the standard, passive case finding (PCF) strategy for detecting cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Myanmar has not been successful: 26% of cases are missing. Therefore, alternative strategies, such as active case finding (ACF) by community volunteers, have been initiated...
Autores principales: | Maung, Htet Myet Win, Saw, Saw, Isaakidis, Petros, Khogali, Mohammed, Reid, Anthony, Hoa, Nguyen Binh, Zaw, Ko Ko, Thein, Saw, Aung, Si Thu |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28366173 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0253-y |
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