Extending 'Contact Tracing' into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection?

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Extending 'Contact Tracing' into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection? is …
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P819ADS bibcode2016PLoSO..1165813F
P356DOI10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0165813
P932PMC publication ID5127497
P698PubMed publication ID27898665

P50authorHemant Deepak ShewadeQ42321721
Jacob CreswellQ58824125
P2093author name stringRobert Stevens
Ejaz Qadeer
Razia Fatima
Ajay M V Kumar
Nasir Mahmood
Aashifa Yaqoob
Mahboob Ul Haq
Suman S Majumdar
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P275copyright licenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalQ20007257
P6216copyright statuscopyrightedQ50423863
P433issue11
P407language of work or nameEnglishQ1860
P921main subjectcontact tracingQ1128437
PakistanQ843
P304page(s)e0165813
P577publication date2016-11-29
P1433published inPLOS OneQ564954
P1476titleExtending 'Contact Tracing' into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection?
P478volume11

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