Prospects for worldwide tuberculosis control under the WHO DOTS strategy. Directly observed short-course therapy.

Background: 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.Methods: We developed an age-structured mathematical model to explore the characteristics of t...

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Published in:	Lancet Vol. 352; no. 9144; pp. 1886 - 1892
Main Authors:	Dye C, Garnett GP, Sleeman K, Williams BG, Dye, C, Garnett, G P, Sleeman, K, Williams, B G
Format:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Lancet 12/12/1998
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