Bringing state-of-the-art diagnostics to vulnerable populations: The use of a mobile screening unit in active case finding for tuberculosis in Palawan, the Philippines.

Bringing state-of-the-art diagnostics to vulnerable populations: The use of a mobile screening unit in active case finding for tuberculosis in Palawan, the Philippines.

<h4>Background</h4>Globally, case detection of tuberculosis (TB) has stabilized in recent years. Active case finding (ACF) has regained an increased attention as a complementary strategy to fill the case detection gap. In the Philippines, the DetecTB project implemented an innovative ACF...

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Main Authors: Fukushi Morishita, Anna Marie Celina Gonzales Garfin, Woojin Lew, Kyung Hyun Oh, Rajendra-Prasad Yadav, Janeth Cuencaho Reston, Lenie Lucio Infante, Maria Rebethia Crueldad Acala, Dean Lim Palanca, Hee Jin Kim, Nobuyuki Nishikiori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171310&type=printable
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