High urban tuberculosis case notification rates can be misleading: evidence from an urban setting in Ethiopia
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. Its magnitude the required interventions are affected by changes in socioeconomic condition and urbanization. Ethiopia is among the thirty high burden countries with increasing effort to end TB. We aimed to describe the case not...
Main Authors: | Daniel Datiko, Ameha Hadgu, Degu Jerene, Pedro G. Suarez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-03-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-8290-z |
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