Cargando…

Yield of facility-based verbal screening amongst household contacts of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan

BACKGROUND: Household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients are at a high risk of getting infected with TB/MDR-TB, therefore symptomatic or vulnerable individuals should be screened and treated early. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among household contacts of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Qadeer, Ejaz, Fatima, Razia, Haq, Mahboob Ul, Yaqoob, Aashifa, Kyaw, Nang Thu Thu, Shah, Safieh, Das, Mrinalini, Isaakidis, Petros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2017.01.004