Screening patients with tuberculosis for diabetes mellitus in Ampara, Sri Lanka

Given the well-known linkage between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organization recommends bidirectional screening. Here we report the first screening effort of its kind from a chest clinic in the Ampara district of Sri Lanka. Of 112 TB patients registered between Ja...

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Hauptverfasser: Rajapakshe, W., Isaakidis, P., Sagili, K. D., Kumar, A. M. V., Samaraweera, S., Pallewatta, N., Jayakody, W., Nissanka, A.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487478/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26400388
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5588/pha.15.0006
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