National guidelines not always followed when diagnosing smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with HIV in Botswana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tafuma, Taurayi A ^a   Burnett, Rosemary J ^b   Huis in 't Veld, Diana ^c,d  

^a Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^b SEFAKO MAKGATHO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; COUGHING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMEAR NEGATIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BOTSWANA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84895799975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088654     Document Type: Article

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