Applying tuberculosis management time to measure the tuberculosis infectious pool at a local level in Ethiopia

• Principais autores: Senedu Bekele Gebreegziabher (Autor), Gunnar Aksel Bjune (Autor), Solomon Abebe Yimer (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Measuring the size of the infectious pool of tuberculosis (TB) is essential to understand the burden and monitor trends of TB control program performance. This study applied the concept of TB management time to estimate and compare the size of the TB infectious pool between 2009...