High mortality rates in tuberculosis patients in Zomba Hospital, Malawi, during 32 months of follow-up
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 94 (3) , 305-309
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90335-3
Abstract
There is little information about long-term follow-up in patients with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) or extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPKeywords
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