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2012-09-21 • Public Health Action
2012-09-21 • Public Health Action
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2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING
BRAC, a non-governmental organisation, implemented a modified smoking cessation programme for tuberculosis (TB) patients based on International Union Against Tuberculosis and...
BRAC, a non-governmental organisation, implemented a modified smoking cessation programme for tuberculosis (TB) patients based on International Union Against Tuberculosis and...
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2011-09-06 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2011-09-06 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing at a dramatic rate, and countries in Asia, particularly India and China, will bear the brunt of this epidemic. Persons with diabetes hav...
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2012-06-16 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2012-06-16 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The words 'defaulter', 'suspect' and 'control' have been part of the language of tuberculosis (TB) services for many decades, and they continue to be used in international guidelines and...
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2012-03-21 • Public Health Action
2012-03-21 • Public Health Action
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2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
2012-08-28 • PLOS Medicine
Treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is lengthy, toxic, expensive, and has generally poor outcomes. We undertook an individual patient data meta-analysis to assess the ...
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Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of MDR-TB in Delhi, India
2014-07-24 • PLOS One
2014-07-24 • PLOS One
National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (erstwhile Lala Ram Sarup Institute) in Delhi, India.
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2013-11-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2013-11-04 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Given India's high rate of TB, rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and growing elderly population, elderly TB patients may be at higher risk of adverse outcomes including d...
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2013-12-16 • PLOS One
2013-12-16 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculos...
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculos...
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2012-12-05 • PLOS One
2012-12-05 • PLOS One
Each follow-up during the course of tuberculosis treatment currently requires two sputum examinations. However, the incremental yield of the second sputum sample during follow-up of diff...
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2013-12-21 • Public Health Action
2013-12-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING
The National Tuberculosis Programme in Singapore where, among resident cases, higher tuberculosis (TB) rates have been reported in ethnic Malays.
OBJECTIVE
To de...
The National Tuberculosis Programme in Singapore where, among resident cases, higher tuberculosis (TB) rates have been reported in ethnic Malays.
OBJECTIVE
To de...
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|Commentary
2009-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2009-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Weak and dysfunctional health systems in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, are recognised as major obstacles to attaining the health-related Millennium Developmen...
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2011-07-08 • BMC Public Health
2011-07-08 • BMC Public Health
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The study was conducted at a high TB-HIV burden primary health community clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. We describe the management of children under five years ...
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2012-02-09 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2012-02-09 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Operational research in low-income countries has a key role in filling the gap between what we know from research and what we do with that knowledge-the so-called know-do gap, or impleme...
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2009-09-22 • BMC Public Health
2009-09-22 • BMC Public Health
BACKGROUND: Although in developing countries the burden of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases has often overshadowed that due to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs),...
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2008-06-10 • PLOS Medicine
2008-06-10 • PLOS Medicine
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2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
2014-06-21 • Public Health Action