Evaluating tuberculosis case detection in eritrea

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Abstract

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 ≈40%, whereas the CDR published by the World Health Organization was 3x lower (14%).

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Van Der Werf, M. J., Sebhatu, M., & Borgdorff, M. W. (2007). Evaluating tuberculosis case detection in eritrea. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13(10), 1497–1499. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.061279

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