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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...
Autores principales: | McCarthy, Kerrigan, Fielding, Katherine, Churchyard, Gavin J., Grant, Alison D. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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