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Knowledge about tuberculosis transmission and prevention and perceptions of health service utilization among index cases and contacts in Brazil: Understanding losses in the latent tuberculosis cascade of care
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis contacts are candidates for active and latent tuberculosis infection screening and eventual treatment. However, many losses occur in the different steps of the contacts’ cascade of care. Reasons for this are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To describe the different steps whe...
Autores principales: | Salame, Flavia Matos, Ferreira, Márcia Danielle, Belo, Marcia Teresa, Teixeira, Eleny Guimarães, Cordeiro-Santos, Marcelo, Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes, de Albuquerque, Maria de Fátima Militão, Hill, Philip C., Menzies, Dick, Trajman, Anete |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28934228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184061 |
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