Health extension workers improve tuberculosis case detection and treatment success in southern Ethiopia: a community randomized trial.

<h4>Background</h4>One of the main strategies to control tuberculosis (TB) is to find and treat people with active disease. Unfortunately, the case detection rates remain low in many countries. Thus, we need interventions to find and treat sufficient number of patients to control TB. We...

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Main Authors: Daniel G Datiko, Bernt Lindtjørn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19424460/?tool=EBI