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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...
Autores principales: | Qadeer, Ejaz, Fatima, Razia, Haq, Mahboob Ul, Yaqoob, Aashifa, Kyaw, Nang Thu Thu, Shah, Safieh, Das, Mrinalini, Isaakidis, Petros |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2017
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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 |
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