Notification of tuberculosis cases in India: Moving ahead in Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program
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Notification of tuberculosis cases in India: Moving ahead in Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program
Tuberculosis (TB) is currently the leading cause of death from a curable infectious disease accounting for 8.7 million new cases and 1.4 million deaths in the year 2011. From the year 2012, TB is a notifiable disease in India which means that all cases of TB diagnosed by any means has to be reported to the public health authorities. This would help policy makers to make rational decisions with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Ecology & Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2000-8686
DOI: 10.3402/iee.v3i0.23006