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Community prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms in rural Malawi: Implications for policy

BACKGROUND: No community prevalence studies have been done on chronic respiratory symptoms of cough, wheezing and shortness of breath in adult rural populations in Malawi. Case detection rates of tuberculosis (TB) and chronic airways disease are low in resource-poor primary health care facilities. O...

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Autores principales:	Banda, Hastings T., Thomson, Rachael, Mortimer, Kevin, Bello, George A. F., Mbera, Grace B., Malmborg, Rasmus, Faragher, Brian, Squire, S. Bertel
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5720679/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216193 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188437

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