Impact of Xpert MTB/RIF and decentralized care on linkage to care and drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Johannesburg, South Africa

BACKGROUND: In 2011, South Africa improved its ability to test for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) by introducing GeneXpert MTB/RIF. At the same time, the South African National TB program adopted a policy decentralized, outpatient treatment for drug resistant (DR-) TB. We aim to analyze the impact...

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Publié dans:BMC Health Serv Res
Auteurs principaux: Evans, Denise, Sineke, Tembeka, Schnippel, Kathryn, Berhanu, Rebecca, Govathson, Caroline, Black, Andrew, Long, Lawrence, Rosen, Sydney
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296148/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30558670
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3762-x
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