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Tuberculosis prevalence and incidence rates from repeated population-based screening in a district in Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study

2022-11-27

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Objective</h4> In Ethiopia, a third of the estimated tuberculosis cases are not detected or reported. Incidence estimates are inaccurate and are rarely measured directly. Any tuberculosis program will miss some tuberculosis cases and assessing the ‘‘real’’ incidence under program conditions is useful to understand the situation. This study aimed to measure the prevalence and incidence of pulm...

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DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.26.22282775

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