Prospects for worldwide tuberculosis control under the WHO DOTS strategy

WHO advocates the use of directly observed treatment with a short-course drug regimen as part of the DOTS strategy, but the potential effect of this strategy worldwide has not been investigated. We developed an age-structured mathematical model to explore the characteristics of tuberculosis control...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 1998-12, Vol.352 (9144), p.1886-1891
Hauptverfasser:	Dye, Christopher, Garnett, Geoffrey P, Sleeman, Karen, Williams, Brian G
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Chemotherapy Developed countries Developing countries Epidemics Human bacterial diseases Infectious diseases LDCs Medical sciences Tuberculosis Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections
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