Does completion of sputum smear monitoring have an effect on treatment success and cure rate among adult tuberculosis patients in rural Eastern Uganda? A propensity score-matched analysis

• Jonathan Izudi ,

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

  * E-mail: jonahzd@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-0389

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• Imelda K. Tamwesigire,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Francis Bajunirwe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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