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Systematic screening for tuberculosis among hospital outpatients in Cameroon: The role of screening and testing algorithms to improve case detection
BACKGROUND: Better screening and testing approaches are needed to improve TB case finding, particularly in health facilities where many people with TB seek care but are not diagnosed using the existing approaches. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate the performance of various TB screening and testing ap...
Autores principales: | Sander, Melissa S., Laah, Sylvain N., Titahong, Collins N., Lele, Christian, Kinge, Thompson, de Jong, Bouke C., Abena, Jean-Louis F., Codlin, Andrew J., Creswell, Jacob |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2019.100095 |
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