Retooling national TB control programmes (NTPs) with new diagnostics: The ntp perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  van Kampen, Sanne C ^a,b   Ramsay, Andrew R ^a   Anthony, Richard M ^b   Klatser, Paul R ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MICROSCOPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77955354733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011649     Document Type: Article

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