Active Case-Finding for Tuberculosis by Mobile Teams in Myanmar: Yield and Treatment Outcomes
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Infectious Diseases of PovertyAbstract
Since 2005, the Myanmar National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) has been implementing active case finding (ACF) activities involving mobile teams in hard-to-reach areas. This study revealed the contribution of mobile team activities to total tuberculosis (TB) case detection, characteristics of TB patients detected by mobile teams and their treatment outcomes.Publisher
BioMed CentralPubMed ID
28571575Language
enISSN
2049-9957ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s40249-017-0291-5
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