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Use of rapid molecular tuberculosis diagnostics across Brazil’s incarcerated population

2021-12-02

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<h4>Background</h4> Incarcerated individuals in Brazil are at high-risk of tuberculosis (TB), but their access to World Health Organization recommended diagnostics is poorly understood. <h4>Methods</h4> We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of newly diagnosed TB cases in Brazil’s notifiable disease registry, which includes information on diagnostic tests performed, from January 2015 through December 2...

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Literature Corpus work: 1a9d2aa4-c1f6-5617-a1a1-c708336ade32
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.30.21266839

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