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Impact of changing diagnostic criteria for smear-positive tuberculosis: a cohort study in Malawi

We assessed the impact on measured burden and outcomes of the revised World Health Organization and Malawi guidelines reclassifying people with single (including ‘scanty’) positive smears as smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases. In a retrospective cohort in rural Malawi, 567 (34%) of 1670 sme...

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Publicado en:Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
Autores principales: Koole, O., Munthali, L., Mhango, B., Mpunga, J., Glynn, J. R., Crampin, A. C.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238259/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24902563
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.13.0811
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