Trends of Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Ten-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis in Urban-Rural Settings

Mesay Hailu Dangisso; Daniel Gemechu Datiko; Bernt Lindtjørn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114225

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Trends of Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Ten-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis in Urban-Rural Settings

Mesay Hailu Dangisso ,

* E-mail: mesayhailudangiso@yahoo.com

Affiliations Center for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Sidama Zone Health Department, Hawassa, Ethiopia
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Daniel Gemechu Datiko,

Affiliations Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Bernt Lindtjørn

Affiliation Center for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Trends of Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Outcomes in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Ten-Year Retrospective Trend Analysis in Urban-Rural Settings

Mesay Hailu Dangisso,
Daniel Gemechu Datiko,
Bernt Lindtjørn

Published: December 2, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114225

About the Authors

Mesay Hailu Dangisso

* E-mail: mesayhailudangiso@yahoo.com

Affiliations Center for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Sidama Zone Health Department, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Daniel Gemechu Datiko

Affiliations Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Bernt Lindtjørn

Affiliation Center for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHD DGD BL. Performed the experiments: MHD DGD BL. Analyzed the data: MHD DGD BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHD DGD BL. Wrote the paper: MHD DGD BL.

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