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Tuberculosis active case-finding interventions and approaches for prisoners in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic scoping review

BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), most prisons are overcrowded with poor ventilation and put prisoners disproportionally at risk of exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and developing TB infection but are mostly missed due to poor access to healthcare. Active case-finding (ACF) of TB i...

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Autores principales: Kuupiel, Desmond, Vezi, Portia, Bawontuo, Vitalis, Osei, Ernest, Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7405346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32758165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05283-1