Community-based active tuberculosis case finding using a symptom-based screening tool in the Volta Region, Ghana

Background: Early tuberculosis case detection is important for early commencement of treatment to improve treatment outcomes and also to prevent community spread of the disease. However, there is a paucity of data in Ghana on the efficiency of the symptom-based screening tool (SBS tool) to detect My...

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Main Authors: George Edward Ntow, Margaret Kweku, Enoch Aninagyei, Kwabena O. Duedu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122032155X