The Prevalence and Drug Sensitivity of Tuberculosis among Patients Dying in Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Postmortem Study

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in South Africa by death notification, but accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis is challenging in this setting of high HIV prevalence. We conducted limited autopsies on young adults dying in a single public hospital in the province of KwaZulu-Nata...

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Main Authors: Cohen, Ted, Murray, Megan, Wallengren, Kristina, Alvarez, Gonzalo G., Samuel, Elizabeth Y., Wilson, Douglas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889914/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20582324
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000296
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