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Investigation of household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients increases case detection in Mwanza City, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing is a key strategy for containing TB and provides addition to the passive case finding approach. However, this practice has not been implemented in Tanzania, where there is unacceptably high treatment gap of 62.1% between cases estimated and cases detecte...

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Autores principales:	Beyanga, Medard, Kidenya, Benson R., Gerwing-Adima, Lisa, Ochodo, Eleanor, Mshana, Stephen E., Kasang, Christa
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29510670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3036-6

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