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Feasibility of district wide screening of health care workers for tuberculosis in Zambia

BACKGROUND: Many health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk for tuberculosis (TB). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening HCWs for TB in high burden settings but this is often not implemented in countries with a high TB incidence. We assessed the feasibility of TB screening a...

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Autores principales: Verver, Suzanne, Kapata, Nathan, Simpungwe, Mathildah Kakungu, Kaminsa, Seraphine, Mwale, Mavis, Mukwangole, Chitambeya, Sichinga, Bernard, Ahmedov, Sevim, Meis, Max
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28705215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4578-z