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Yield of tuberculosis among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in Accra, Ghana

BACKGROUND: The End TB Strategy calls for systematic screening of selected high-risk groups including contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases to facilitate early TB case detection. Contact investigation is not usually routinely practiced in low TB burden countries, such as Ghana, with consequent paucity...

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Autores principales: Ohene, Sally-Ann, Bonsu, Frank, Hanson-Nortey, Nii Nortey, Sackey, Adelaide, Danso, Samuel, Afutu, Felix, Klatser, Paul, Bakker, Mirjam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5828410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-018-0396-5