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Tuberculosis
Reports summarize tuberculosis study results from A. Ohkado and co-researchers
June 9th, 2009
According to a study from Winchester, the United Kingdom, "Active default tracing is an integral part of tuberculosis (TB) programmatic control. It can be differentiated into the tracing of defaulters (patients not seen at the clinic for >= 2 months) and 'late patients' (late for their scheduled appointments)." "Tracing is carried out to obtain reliable information about who has truly died, transferred out or stopped treatment, and, if possible, to persuade those who have stopped treatment to resume. This is important because, unlike routine care for non-communicable diseases, TB has the potential for transmission to other members of the community, and therefore...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-09)
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