Evaluating Tuberculosis Case Detection in Eritrea

van der Werf, Marieke J.; Sebhatu, Mineab; Borgdorff, Martien W.

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Evaluating Tuberculosis Case Detection in Eritrea

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Oct 2007

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Emerg Infect Dis. 13(10):1497-1499.

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van der Werf, Marieke J. ; Sebhatu, Mineab ; Borgdorff, Martien W. ;

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We used results from a national tuberculosis prevalence survey in Eritrea to calculate case detection rate (CDR) and compared it with the published CDR. The CDR obtained from the survey was approximately 40%, whereas the CDR published by the World Health Organization was 3x lower (14%).

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