Tuberculosis Supranational Reference Laboratories
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Are sputum samples of retreatment tuberculosis reaching the reference laboratories? A 9-year audit in Tanzania.
SETTING One reference and three zonal laboratories and 500 health facilities managing retreatment tuberculosis (TB) patients in Tanzania. OBJECTIVES The National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) requires that all notified cases of retreatment TB in Tanzania have sputum samples sent for culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST). This study determined 1) if the number of annually n...
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Correspondence to: Dr Xue-Feng Huang, Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China Fax: +86-5778-8069 ext.393 E-mail: [email protected] Received: 27 March 2010 Accepted: 30 March 2010 Letters to the Editor Asian Journal of Andrology (2010) 12: 447–448 © 2010 AJA, SIMM & SJTU All rights reserved 1008-682X/10 $ 32.00 www.natur...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinics in Chest Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0272-5231
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2019.07.005