Tuberculosis treatment delays and associated factors within the Zimbabwe national tuberculosis programme

BACKGROUND: Delayed presentation of pulmonary TB (PTB) patients for treatment from onset of symptoms remains a threat to controlling individual disease progression and TB transmission in the community. Currently, there is insufficient information about treatment delays in Zimbabwe, and we therefore...

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Published in:BMC Public Health
Main Authors: Takarinda, Kudakwashe C, Harries, Anthony D, Nyathi, Barnet, Ngwenya, Mkhokheli, Mutasa-Apollo, Tsitsi, Sandy, Charles
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314739/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25631667
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1437-7
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