Treatment outcome of patients with smear-negative and smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Malawi

Delays in diagnosis and treatment of sme

Delays in diagnosis and treatment of smear-positive tuberculosis and the incidence of tuberculosis in hospital nurses in Blantyre, Malawi

✍ A.D. Harries; A. Kamenya; D. Namarika; I.W. Msolomba; F.M. Salaniponi; D.S. Nyan 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 392 KB

There is little information about nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in sub-Saharan Africa. A study was carried out to examine the process of diagnosis and treatment of smear-positive pulmonaryTB patients in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, and the incidence ofTB in nurs