Does completion of sputum smear monitoring have an effect on treatment success and cure rate among adult tuberculosis patients in rural Eastern Uganda? A propensity score-matched analysis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a global public health problem. Bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (BC-PTB) patients require three sputum smear monitoring (SSM) tests to establish cure or treatment success, but few studies have assessed the relationship. We evaluated the effect of comple...

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Autores principales: Izudi, Jonathan, Tamwesigire, Imelda K., Bajunirwe, Francis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6932753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31877177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226919

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6932753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31877177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226919

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