Can follow-up examination of tuberculosis patients be simplified? A study in Chhattisgarh, India
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Kundu, DM V Kumar, A
Satyanarayana, S
Dewan, P K
Achuthan Nair, S
Khaparde, K
Nayak, P
Van den Bergh, R
Manzi, M
Enarson, D A
Deshpande, M R
Chandraker, S
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Office of the World Health Organization Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India.Issue Date
2012-12-05Submitted date
2013-06-20
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PloS OneAbstract
Each follow-up during the course of tuberculosis treatment currently requires two sputum examinations. However, the incremental yield of the second sputum sample during follow-up of different types of tuberculosis patients has never been determined precisely.Publisher
Public Library of SciencePubMed ID
23227230Language
enISSN
1932-6203ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0051038
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