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Household contact non-attendance of clinical evaluation for tuberculosis: a pilot study in a high burden district in South Africa

BACKGROUND: In 2012, the World Health Organization launched guidelines for systematically investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries. As such, it is necessary to understand factors that would influence successful scale-up. This study targe...

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Autores principales:	Kigozi, Gladys, Engelbrecht, Michelle, Heunis, Christo, Janse van Rensburg, André
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29506488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3010-3

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