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Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

BACKGROUND: The extent and circumstances under which empiric tuberculosis (TB) treatment (treatment without microbiological confirmation at treatment initiation) is administered in primary health care settings in South Africa are not well described. METHODS: We used data from a pragmatic evaluation...

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Autores principales: McCarthy, Kerrigan, Fielding, Katherine, Churchyard, Gavin J., Grant, Alison D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29364960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191608