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Improving natural ventilation in hospital waiting and consulting rooms to reduce nosocomial tuberculosis transmission risk in a low resource setting

BACKGROUND: TB transmission in healthcare facilities is an important public health problem, especially in the often-overcrowded settings of HIV treatment scale-up. The problem is compounded by the emergence of drug resistant TB. Natural ventilation is a low-cost environmental control measure for TB...

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Autores principales: Escombe, A. Roderick, Ticona, Eduardo, Chávez-Pérez, Víctor, Espinoza, Manuel, Moore, David A. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30683052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3717-9