Innovative Community-Based Approaches Doubled Tuberculosis Case Notification and Improve Treatment Outcome in Southern Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Yassin, Mohammed A ^a,b   Datiko, Daniel G ^b,c   Tulloch, Olivia ^b   Markos, Paulos ^c   Aschalew, Melkamsew ^d   Shargie, Estifanos B ^a   Dangisso, Mesay H ^c   Komatsu, Ryuichi ^a   Sahu, Suvanand ^e   Blok, Lucie ^f   Cuevas, Luis E ^b   Theobald, Sally ^b  

^a TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c TB REACH Project Sidama zone   (Ethiopia)

^d Southern Region Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^e Stop TB Partnership   (Switzerland)

^f ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878316486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063174     Document Type: Article

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