Taima (stop) TB: the impact of a multifaceted TB awareness and door-to-door campaign in residential areas of high risk for TB in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The incidence rate of active tuberculosis (TB) disease in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut has shown a rising trend over the past 10 years. In 2010 it was 60 times greater than the national incidence rate. The objective of the Taima (translates to "stop" in Inuktitut) TB study was to impl...

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Hauptverfasser: Gonzalo G Alvarez, Deborah D VanDyk, Shawn D Aaron, D William Cameron, Naomi Davies, Natasha Stephen, Ranjeeta Mallick, Franco Momoli, Katherine Moreau, Natan Obed, Maureen Baikie, Geraldine Osborne
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Schriftenreihe:PLoS ONE
Online Zugang:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4102461?pdf=render