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Comparative Yield of Tuberculosis during Active Case Finding Using GeneXpert or Smear Microscopy for Diagnostic Testing in Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study
This study compared the yield of tuberculosis (TB) active case finding (ACF) interventions applied under TB REACH funding. Between June 2017 to November 2018, Birat Nepal Medical Trust identified presumptive cases using simple verbal screening from three interventions: door-to-door screening of soci...
Autores principales: | Gurung, Suman Chandra, Dixit, Kritika, Rai, Bhola, Dhital, Raghu, Paudel, Puskar Raj, Acharya, Shraddha, Budhathoki, Gangaram, Malla, Deepak, Levy, Jens W., Lönnroth, Knut, Ramsay, Andrew, Basnyat, Buddha, Thapa, Anil, Mishra, Gokul, Subedi, Bishal, Shah, Mohammad Kashim, Shrestha, Anil, Caws, Maxine |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6020050 |
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