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Sputum Smear Non-conversion at the End of Intensive Phase of Tuberculosis Treatment at a Tertiary Care Center in Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional study

INTRODUCTION: Sputum non-conversion is smear positive tuberculosis despite anti-tubercular therapy. Various factors may lead to sputum non-conversion including resistance to anti-tubercular drugs, age, gender, disease severity, non-compliance, drugs unavailability etc. Little is known and studied ab...

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Autores principales:	Shah, Naveen Prakash, Regmi, Anil, Acharya, Aakash, Jwala, K.C., Khatiwada, Bidur, Hada, Meera
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2021
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124322/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35199752 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7020

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