Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana.

Joyce B Der Daniel J GrintClement T NarhFrank BonsuAlison D Grant

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The majority of presumptive TB patients attending a rural health facility did not submit sputum for testing, mainly due to the long travel distance to the laboratory. Bridging this gap in the diagnostic cascade may improve case detection.

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