Factors associated with low cure rate of tuberculosis in remote poor areas of Shaanxi Province, China: a case control study

BACKGROUND: The directly observed therapy-short course (DOTS) strategy was introduced in Shaanxi province, China to improve tuberculosis (TB) control by means of improved case detection (target: > = 70%) and treatment success rates (target: > = 85%) in new smear positive (SS+) TB patients. At...

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Main Authors: Ai, Xianqin, Men, Ke, Guo, Liujia, Zhang, Tianhua, Zhao, Yan, Sun, Xiaolu, Zhang, Hongwei, He, Guangxue, van der Werf, Marieke J, van den Hof, Susan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838810/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205941
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-112
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