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Diagnosis of tuberculosis among COVID-19 suspected cases in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 pandemics are both diseases of public health threat globally. Both diseases are caused by pathogens that infect mainly the respiratory system, and are involved in airborne transmission; they also share some clinical signs and symptoms. We, therefore, took a...

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Autores principales:	Afum, Theophilus, Asare, Prince, Asante-Poku, Adwoa, Darko-Otchere, Isaac, Morgan, Portia Abena, Bedeley, Edmund, Asandem, Diana Asema, Musah, Abdul Basit, Siam, Ishaque Mintah, Tetteh, Phillip, Adusi-Poku, Yaw, Frimpong-Manso, Rita, Bonney, Joseph Humphrey Kofi, Ampofo, William, Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34962960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261849

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