High prevalence of tuberculosis and insufficient case detection in two communities in the Western Cape, South Africa.

<h4>Background</h4>In South Africa the estimated incidence of all forms of tuberculosis (TB) for 2008 was 960/100000. It was reported that all South Africans lived in districts with Directly Observed Therapy, Short-course. However, the 2011 WHO report indicated South Africa as the only c...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Mareli Claassens, Cari van Schalkwyk, Leonie den Haan, Sian Floyd, Rory Dunbar, Paul van Helden, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen Ayles, Martien Borgdorff, Donald Enarson, Nulda Beyers
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058689&type=printable