Measuring and addressing the childhood tuberculosis reporting gaps in Pakistan: The first ever national inventory study among children.
<h4>Introduction</h4>Tuberculosis in children may be difficult to diagnose and is often not reported to routine surveillance systems. Understanding and addressing the tuberculosis (TB) case detection and reporting gaps strengthens national routine TB surveillance systems.<h4>Object...
Main Authors: | Razia Fatima, Aashifa Yaqoob, Ejaz Qadeer, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker, Aamer Ikram, Charalambos Sismanidis |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227186 |
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