Assessing the Quality of Tuberculosis Evaluation for Children with Prolonged Cough Presenting to Routine Community Health Care Settings in Rural Uganda

Carina Marquez; J. Lucian Davis; Achilles Katamba; Priscilla Haguma; Emmanuel Ochom; Irene Ayakaka; Gabriel Chamie; Grant Dorsey; Moses R. Kamya; Edwin Charlebois; Diane V. Havlir; Adithya Cattamanchi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105935

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Assessing the Quality of Tuberculosis Evaluation for Children with Prolonged Cough Presenting to Routine Community Health Care Settings in Rural Uganda

Carina Marquez ,

* E-mail: Carina.Marquez@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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J. Lucian Davis,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Achilles Katamba,

Affiliation School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Priscilla Haguma,

Affiliation MU-UCSF Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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Emmanuel Ochom,

Affiliation MU-UCSF Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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Irene Ayakaka,

Affiliation MU-UCSF Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
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Gabriel Chamie,

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Grant Dorsey,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Moses R. Kamya,

Affiliation School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Edwin Charlebois,

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Diane V. Havlir,

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Adithya Cattamanchi

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Assessing the Quality of Tuberculosis Evaluation for Children with Prolonged Cough Presenting to Routine Community Health Care Settings in Rural Uganda

Carina Marquez,
J. Lucian Davis,
Achilles Katamba,
Priscilla Haguma,
Emmanuel Ochom,
Irene Ayakaka,
Gabriel Chamie,
Grant Dorsey,
Moses R. Kamya,
Edwin Charlebois

Published: August 29, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105935

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