A multi-site evaluation of innovative approaches to increase tuberculosis case notification: Summary results

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Creswell, Jacob ^a   Sahu, Suvanand ^a   Blok, Lucie ^b   Bakker, Mirjam I ^b   Stevens, Robert ^c   Ditiu, Lucica ^a  

^a Stop TB Partnership ^*  (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c HLSP Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FUNDING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; SPUTUM SMEAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; AFRICA; ASIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS;

AFRICA; ASIA; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84899552732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094465     Document Type: Article

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