Strengthening tuberculosis diagnosis in a low-resource setting: Experience learned in Dodoma, Tanzania

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 676-679

  Cannas, Angela ^a   Paglia, Maria G ^a   Sakhoo, Dominick C ^b   Vairo, Francesco ^a,d   Doulla, Basra ^c   Nguhuni, Boniface ^b   Chaula, Zainab ^b   Mlumba, Raphael ^b   Mirrione, Maurizio ^a   Bevilacqua, Nazario ^a   Nicastri, Emanuele ^a   De Nardo, Pasquale ^a   Meschi, Silvia ^a   Girardi, Enrico ^a   Racalbuto, Vincenzo ^d   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b Dodoma Regional Hospital (DRH)   (Tanzania)

^c Dar es Salaam   (Tanzania)

^d Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFB smear microscopy; Laboratory capacity building; TB culture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DEVICE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MICROSCOPY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPUTUM SMEAR; TANZANIA; TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84884227041     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.3366     Document Type: Article

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