Treatment delay among tuberculosis patients in Tanzania: Data from the FIDELIS Initiative

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund ^a,b   Madland, Simon ^a   Ullenes, Martin ^a   Enarson, Donald A ^a,b   Rusen, Id ^b   Kamara, Deudatus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955867225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-306     Document Type: Article

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