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    Can follow-up examination of tuberculosis patients be simplified? A study in Chhattisgarh, India

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    Kundu, D
    M 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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    Affiliation
    Office of the World Health Organization Representative in India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India.
    Issue Date
    2012-12-05
    Submitted date
    2013-06-20
    
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    Journal
    PloS One
    Abstract
    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 Science
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/295260
    DOI
    10.1371/journal.pone.0051038
    PubMed ID
    23227230
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1932-6203
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1371/journal.pone.0051038
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