Can follow-up examination of tuberculosis patients be simplified? A study in Chhattisgarh, India.
<h4>Background</h4>Each follow-up during the course of tuberculosis treatment currently requires two sputum examinations. However, the incremental yield of the second sputum sample during follow-up of different types of tuberculosis patients has never been determined precisely.<h4>...
Main Authors: | Debashish Kundu, Ajay M V Kumar, Srinath Satyanarayana, Puneet Kumar Dewan, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Kshitij Khaparde, Priyakanta Nayak, Rafael Van den Bergh, Marcel Manzi, Donald A Enarson, Madhav Rao Deshpande, Sachin Chandraker |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23227230/?tool=EBI |
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