Routine surveillance for the identification of drug resistant Tuberculosis in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study of stakeholders’ perceptions

Basra Esmail Doulla; Stephen Bertel Squire; Eleanor MacPherson; Esther Stanslaus Ngadaya; Beatrice Kemilembe Mutayoba; Ivor Langley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212421

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Routine surveillance for the identification of drug resistant Tuberculosis in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study of stakeholders’ perceptions

Basra Esmail Doulla ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bedoulla@gmail.com

Affiliations Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children; National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8197-1391

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Stephen Bertel Squire ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen Bertel Squire, Eleanor MacPherson, Ivor Langley

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Eleanor MacPherson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen Bertel Squire, Eleanor MacPherson, Ivor Langley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Esther Stanslaus Ngadaya ,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institutes for Medical Research, Muhimbili Medical Research Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Beatrice Kemilembe Mutayoba ,

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children; National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Ivor Langley

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen Bertel Squire, Eleanor MacPherson, Ivor Langley

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Routine surveillance for the identification of drug resistant Tuberculosis in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study of stakeholders’ perceptions

Basra Esmail Doulla,
Stephen Bertel Squire,
Eleanor MacPherson,
Esther Stanslaus Ngadaya,
Beatrice Kemilembe Mutayoba,
Ivor Langley

Published: February 22, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212421

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