Active case finding of tuberculosis (TB) in an emergency room in a region with high prevalence of TB in Brazil.

Public hospital emergency room (ER) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a setting with high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.To determine the prevalence of PTB, using a symptom based active case finding (ACF) strategy in the ER of a public hospital in an area wit...

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Main Authors: Denise Rossato Silva, Alice Mânica Müller, Karina da Silva Tomasini, Paulo de Tarso Roth Dalcin, Jonathan E Golub, Marcus Barreto Conde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4161448?pdf=render