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Household point of care CD4 testing and isoniazid preventive therapy initiation in a household TB contact tracing programme in two districts of South Africa
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, TB household contact tracing provides an opportunity for increased TB and HIV case finding. We aimed to determine the effect of two new potential interventions for TB contact tracing programmes: Point of Care CD4 (PoC CD4) on HIV linkage to care and household Isoniazid P...
Autores principales: | Page-Shipp, Liesl, Lewis, James J., Velen, Kavindhran, Senoge, Sedikanelo, Zishiri, Elizabeth, Popane, Flora, Chihota, Violet N., Clark, Dave, Churchyard, Gavin J., Charalambous, Salome |
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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/PMC5834159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29499060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192089 |
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