Yield of facility-based verbal screening amongst household contacts of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan
Background: Household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients are at a high risk of getting infected with TB/MDR-TB, therefore symptomatic or vulnerable individuals should be screened and treated early. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among household contacts of...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-05-01
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Series: | Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579416300286 |