Structured approaches for the screening and diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in a high prevalence region of South Africa

Structured approaches for the screening and diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in a high prevalence region of South Africa

OBJECTIVE: To measure agreement between nine structured approaches for diagnosing childhood tuberculosis; to quantify differences in the number of tuberculosis cases diagnosed with the different approaches, and to determine the distribution of cases in different categories of diagnostic certainty. M...

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Main Authors: Mark Hatherill, Monique Hanslo, Tony Hawkridge, Francesca Little, Lesley Workman, Hassan Mahomed, Michele Tameris, Sizulu Moyo, Hennie Geldenhuys, Willem Hanekom, Lawrence Geiter, Gregory Hussey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2010-04-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000400018&lng=en&tlng=en

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