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Pre-treatment loss to follow-up among patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Baluchistan, Pakistan, 2012-17: a retrospective cohort study

2018-12-07

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<h4>Background: </h4> Patients with rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) pretreatment loss to follow-up continue to be a global health challenge. Although the accuracy of diagnosis significantly increased with the implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF assay, which is a rapid molecular based test and more sensitive than conventional microscopy which detects MTB even present in small limit of 136 MTB/ml of sputum, but still da...

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Literature Corpus work: 8e1ab97c-1996-5c05-8d84-1286593f22c8
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17057.1

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