For tuberculosis elimination, Directly Observed Therapy, short course (DOTS) is essential but not sufficient
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Prospects for worldwide tuberculosis control under the WHO DOTS strategy. Directly observed short-course therapy.
BACKGROUND WHO advocates the use of directly observed treatment with a short-course drug regimen as part of the DOTS strategy, but the potential effect of this strategy worldwide has not been investigated. METHODS We developed an age-structured mathematical model to explore the characteristics of tuberculosis control under DOTS, and to forecast the effect of improved case finding and cure on ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2242-3982
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v70i2.17804