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A household survey on screening practices of household contacts of smear positive tuberculosis patients in Vietnam.
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BACKGROUND: Close contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients are at increased risk of developing tuberculosis. Although passive contact screening guidelines are incorporated in the national TB control program, currently it is unknown how frequent close contacts are screened for TB in Vietnam. This study assesses current contact screening practices in Vietnam and determines the proportion of household contacts screened of newly registered TB patients. METHOD: Survey of household contacts of smear-...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2458-14-713
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC public health Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 713
- Publication date:
- 2014-07-11
- DOI:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
- Source identifiers:
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475826
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- Language:
- English
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uuid:c176099b-0859-497f-802f-7cf3a8fa79ee
- Local pid:
- pubs:475826
- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Thanh et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014 Thanh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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