The multi-drug resistant tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment cascade in Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Hossain, Sarder Tanzir ^a   Isaakidis, Petros ^b   Sagili, Karuna D ^c   Islam, Shayla ^a   Islam, Md Akramul ^a   Shewade, Hemant Deepak ^d   Mostofa Kamal, S M ^e   Husain, Ashaque ^f  

^a RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

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

^d MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e NIDCH   (Bangladesh)

^f DGHS   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BANGLADESH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBERCULOSIS RAPID TEST; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; PATIENT DROPOUT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BANGLADESH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938392242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129155     Document Type: Article

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