Directly observed therapy for the treatment of tuberculosis—evidence based dosage guidelines
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Fostering Directly Observed Treatment in Tuberculosis: A Program Manager’s Perspective
Global Tuberculosis (TB) report (2013) has revealed that an estimated 8.6 million people developed TB of which, India accounts for almost 26% of the cases. These estimates clearly suggest that the country’s efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 by 2015 have not delivered the desired output. In India, the TB prevention and control activities are supervised and implemented under the Re...
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1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 2 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 3 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(99)90259-7