Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

Kerrigan McCarthy; Katherine Fielding; Gavin J. Churchyard; Alison D. Grant

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191608

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Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

Kerrigan McCarthy ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: kerriganm@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-9795

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Katherine Fielding,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Gavin J. Churchyard,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Advancing Treatment and Care, South African Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Alison D. Grant

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Empiric tuberculosis treatment in South African primary health care facilities - for whom, where, when and why: Implications for the development of tuberculosis diagnostic tests

Kerrigan McCarthy,
Katherine Fielding,
Gavin J. Churchyard,
Alison D. Grant

Published: January 24, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191608

About the Authors

Kerrigan McCarthy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: kerriganm@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-9795

Katherine Fielding

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gavin J. Churchyard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Aurum Institute; Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Advancing Treatment and Care, South African Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa

Alison D. Grant

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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