Bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis patients: Loss to follow-up, death and delay before treatment initiation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe from 2012

Bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis patients: Loss to follow-up, death and delay before treatment initiation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe from 2012–2016

Published:2018-11 Issue: Volume:76 Page:6-13
ISSN:1201-9712
Container-title:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
language:en
Short-container-title:International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Author:

Mugauri Hamufare^ORCID,Shewade Hemant Deepak^ORCID,Dlodlo Riitta A.,Hove Sithokozile,Sibanda Edwin

Funder

United Kingdom’s Department for International Development

La Fondation Veuve Emile Metz-Tesch

the United States Agency for International Development

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

the National AIDS Council Zimbabwe

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Medicine

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