Intensified Tuberculosis Case Finding among Malnourished Children in Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres of Karnataka, India: Missed Opportunities

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculosis (TB). In India, nutritional rehabilitation centres (NRCs) have been recently established for the management of SAM including T...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 8; no. 12; p. e84255
Main Authors:	Bhat, Prashant G., Kumar, Ajay M. V., Naik, Balaji, Satyanarayana, Srinath, KG, Deepak, Nair, Sreenivas A., MD, Suryakanth, Heldal, Einar, Enarson, Donald A., Reid, Anthony J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 16.12.2013 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Algorithms Child health Child Nutrition Disorders - complications Child Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Communicable diseases Court decisions Cross-Sectional Studies Diagnosis Diagnostic systems Ethics Female Humans India - epidemiology Infant Infant, Newborn Infectious diseases Lung diseases Male Malnutrition Mass Screening Medical diagnosis Medical personnel Mortality Occupational health Optimization Pediatrics Population Population Surveillance Public health Radiography Rehabilitation Retrospective Studies Risk factors Skin tests Tuberculin Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - complications Tuberculosis - diagnosis Tuberculosis - epidemiology Workers Workloads India Karnataka India
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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